After serving as the newly-elected District Attorney of Westchester County for the past three months, I was pleased to accept the invitation of Gov. Kathy Hochul to participate in a recent roundtable discussion she hosted in Albany l to discuss the unfortunate consequences of the sweeping discovery reforms enacted in 2019, and to lend support for her latest proposal for making desperately needed changes that will bring justice to all New Yorkers. Of course, the need for “justice” does not apply to only one segment of our society, justice is needed by those who are victims of crime, just as it is needed by those charged with crimes and every other member of our greater community throughout New York state.

Reflecting upon my experience as a prosecutor for more than a decade, as well as my years as a defense attorney and later as a county court judge for nearly 20 years, I understood that the........

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