Wayne County NY Public Defender

The Wayne County NY Public Defender's Office is dedicated to providing quality representation for those unable to afford counsel in criminal cases and appeals.

[kasiadonohue @kasiadonohue]

HESC/DALF can stave off the extreme attrition at DA's and PD's offices by helping with our crushing student debt. @CarlHeastie it's imperative to bring @JoAnneSimonBK52 bill: A1568B to a floor vote ASAP so we can keep doing this important work. #ExpandStudentLoanRelief

[Wayne County NY Public Defender @wayne_public]

Pass Clean Slate now! Endless punishment is not justice. #cleanslateNY

[Wayne County NY Public Defender @wayne_public]

WCPD's 2nd Assistant Arline Hanna was today sworn-in as a member of the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. What an honor for a great lawyer.

[Wayne County NY Public Defender @wayne_public]

WCPD placed this editorial in the Rochester D+C last week urging NY legislators continue to protect discovery reform. Thank you for funding fairness. We can confirm it's working. @GovKathyHochul @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie

[NYSDA @NYSDefenders]

NYSDA calls on lawmakers to stand firm again bail law changes.

[NYSACDL @NYSACDL]

The budget is still not final and NYSACDL remains strongly opposed to the @GovKathyHochul's proposed rollbacks to bail laws.

These changes will send more Black and brown New Yorkers to deadly jails.

We ask the legislature to stand firm.

@NYSenDems @NYSA_Majority

[Wayne County NY Public Defender @wayne_public]

@nytimes Wait, is this really @nytimes or the NYT Pitchbot, @DougJBalloon? Holy cow.

[Chief Defenders NY @chiefdefendsNY]

Over 50 Public Defense offices and agencies sent a letter to NY's lawmakers in opposition to rollbacks to current #discoverylaws. Read more at https://t.co/oeZzwSssug.

@NYSACDL @NYSDefenders

@NYSenate @NYSenateDems @NYSA_Majority

[NYSDA @NYSDefenders]

NYSDA joined numerous defenders across the state to call on legislators not to compromise on discovery reform https://t.co/Rmwqxeeiy5

[Wayne County NY Public Defender @wayne_public]

Defender offices speak in a unified voice against any back door, last minute changes to discovery laws, slipped into the budget, no less. Yet the NYC DAs claim defense lawyers are "lying in wait" and playing games. Please. https://t.co/pi3p6GWw9D

[Wayne County NY Public Defender @wayne_public]

Three NYC DAs have been pushing for discovery rollbacks behind closed doors for months. Why? Because fairness is apparently too hard to figure out. So they have worked in the dark to gut the law during the opaque budget process. This should be a hard NO.
https://t.co/J9XT8yz0Ud

[Chief Defenders NY @chiefdefendsNY]

CDANY Calls on the Legislature to Hold The Line on #DiscoveryReform - So-Called Tweaks Would Be Devastating

#nysbudget @NYSenate @NYSenateDems @NYSA_Majority

[NYSDA @NYSDefenders]

NYSDA Urges Lawmakers to Reject Changes to Discovery and Bail Laws

[Chief Defenders NY @chiefdefendsNY]

CDANY Statement RE Rumored Gutting of NY's Discovery Laws

We are appalled but not surprised to learn that certain DAs have waged a covert campaign to effectively gut the historic successful discovery reforms passed in '19.

More: https://t.co/0Vf9OsWqjN

@NYSenate @NYSA_Majority

[Eli Northrup @EliNorthrup]

Not satisfied with merely changing the bail laws to jail more New Yorkers awaiting trial, the Governor is now attempting to use the budget process to roll back the discovery laws, making it harder for those same New Yorkers to see the evidence in their case.

[Wayne County NY Public Defender @wayne_public]

CNN just said that a misdemeanor conviction in NY is just a fine. Hmm. WCPD has had thousands of jailed clients who would disagree strongly with that, and point out the permanent damage "just" a misdemeanor can cause, for life. Sloppy reporting. @CNN And let's pass #cleanslateny

[ajjack.bsky.social @AJJackNY]

Here @LegalAidNYC we renew our urgent call to @AndreaSCousins, @CarlHeastie & members of the Legislature to continue to reject @GovKathyHochul regressive rollbacks to New York’s successful bail reform law." https://t.co/dsnDWrDpAH

[Chief Defenders NY @chiefdefendsNY]

Defenders: @NYSenate & @NYSA_Majority Hold the Line on Bail Reform

CDANY Pres Mark Funk: @GovKathyHochul insists on rollbacks that would result in more low-income people deprived of liberty pretrial, despite clear & overwhelming data that #bailreform is working.

#NYSBudget

[Tina Luongo @TMLuongo]

None of this is needed and driven by fear-mongering and politics. @CarlHeastie @AndreaSCousins hold the line. You know that is the right thing to do.

[Wayne County NY Public Defender @wayne_public]

@TheRealLatriceW @chiefdefendsNY I know nobody in these responses cares about data. But here it is anyway. NY tried locking everybody up. It didn't work and was racist. Leave bail reform alone.
https://t.co/lYOmPVUj3C