DontDrinkTooMuch t1_iuq3f20 wrote
Reply to comment by ShinyGodzilla in McDonald's franchisee to pay $1M to employees for violating workers' rights at 7 Brooklyn locations by Eriosyces
Should court cases move faster? Yeah. Should judges have more freedom to set bail? Yes. Doesn't mean he was freed, as he wasn't tried yet.
ShinyGodzilla t1_iuq3muo wrote
>A career criminal was repeatedly busted and released again in Manhattan in the past month — allegedly committing one of his crimes right behind the courthouse less than an hour after being freed, records show.
> Darin Mickens, 55, is so prolific at his illicit pickpocketing craft that he was once featured in the NYPD’s “Nifty 50” deck of cards of the Big Apple’s biggest subway-crime recidivists, police sources said.
DontDrinkTooMuch t1_iuq42do wrote
"currently has three open cases tied to a slew of Manhattan pickpocket "busts — in which he was released without bail each time."
Being released without bail means he didn't face trial yet. I think you have a big misunderstanding how the court system works.
ShinyGodzilla t1_iuq6isw wrote
> This guy never met a pocket he didn’t want to pick,” a disgusted law enforcement source said.
> The sticky-fingered suspect has lodged 66 arrests in all and currently has three open cases tied to a slew of Manhattan pickpocket busts — in which he was released without bail each time.
> In two of his most recent cases, even Manhattan prosecutors from soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argued that Mickens be held on cash bail as high as $75,000 because of his repeat arrests, citing a tweak to the state’s heavily criticized bail-reform laws that supposedly allows the move.
> Mickens had been charged in each case with fourth-degree grand larceny, a non-violent felony that is not eligible for bail under the controversial criminal reform statutes. The 2019 state bail-reform measures, viewed as excessively lenient by critics, changed the landscape of the criminal-justice system in the Empire State.
> The measure eliminated bail for misdemeanors and many felony changes, stripping judges of discretion to order defendants held, including repeat offenders.
> In two of his most recent cases, even Manhattan prosecutors from soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argued that Mickens be held on cash bail as high as $75,000 because of his repeat arrests, citing a tweak to the state’s heavily criticized bail-reform laws that supposedly allows the move.
> Mickens had been charged in each case with fourth-degree grand larceny, a non-violent felony that is not eligible for bail under the controversial criminal reform statutes.
> The “harm on harm” statute is one of the few tools prosecutors still have to argue for bail in cases involving non-bail-eligible offenses — but it’s a remedy not typically granted.
DontDrinkTooMuch t1_iuq77zr wrote
You can keep quoting the article but you're missing it's crucial points that don't say he's being freed on charges.
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