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Those accused of crimes involving a firearm or a weapon should be eligible to be sent to jail rather than be released under the state’s bail reform statutes.
Assemblyman Charles Lavine, D-Glen Cove, has introduced A.6737, which would amend the list of bail-eligible in the state Criminal Procedure Law.
The state’s April 2019 bail reform legislation included nine categories of charges overwhelmingly felonies that allowed judges to set bail. Amendments in 2020 added several categories of crimes to the bail-eligible list, but Lavine wrote that crimes committed with a firearm or weapon should be further added to the list. Some misdemeanors are eligible for bail, but none include being sent directly to jail for pretrial detention.
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