DAs Rap Drug Law Changes
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- June
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District attorneys from across the state are in Albany today to knock the new changes to the state’s drug laws. They plan to play an audio tape of a accused drug dealer who they say has a 27-page “rap sheet” awaiting trial in a county jail.
In the audio, the prisoner talks about how state lawmakers passed the “Drug Dealer Protection Law” and how the law will protect him and others from going to jail.
What he is referring to is the drug law changes that lawmakers approved that allows judges to sentence low-level drug offenders to treatment programs instead of prison.
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan is announcing that the state District Attorneys’ Association will form a committee to monitor the new laws.
“I’m hoping to report back that there hasn’t been an increase in crime. I hoping our drug treatment will be as successful as it has been,” Donovan said this morning on Fred Dicker’s radio show. “My fear is that we won’t be able to report that.”
Here’s the edited version of the phone call by the inmate:
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you know just legalize marijuana and tax that like nicotine and booze. if everything was legal….........we could fire have the DA’s and law enforcement personnel and save tons of money that could be used towards more beneficial things. the “war on drugs” is a joke.
always has been….it has not done a thing to stop anything when are people gonna wake up