With the state budget already delayed by nearly a month because of Governor Hochul’s insistence on using it to force changes to the successful bail laws to increase pretrial jailing, as well as an 11th hour push to gut the discovery and speedy trial laws, the NYC Council’s Progressive Caucus will co-lead a press conference and rally outside City Hall with Akeem Browder, brother of the late Kalief Browder, and other advocates to save the civil rights protections in New York State’s discovery, speedy trial, and bail laws.
