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It's Time to Hold Prosecutors Accountable #AccountabilityNY





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> ACCOUNTABILITY NY IS A COALITION OF LAW PROFESSORS, CIVIL RIGHTS CORPS,
> COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS, ATTORNEYS AND OTHER CONCERNED COMMUNITY MEMBERS SEEKING
> PROFESSIONAL CONSEQUENCES FOR PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT.





NO MORE SECRETS: ACCOUNTABILITY NY COLLABORATORS FILE SUIT TO DEMAND PUBLIC
ACCOUNTABILITY



On November 4, 2021, six professors and Civil Rights Corps filed a complaint
against New York City officials following the officials’ attempts to prevent the
professors from publicly publishing their grievances and deny the professors
their right to know what becomes of their grievances. Read the full complaint
and The New York Times article in the links below.



CRC v. Pestana

The New York Times






WHAT IS PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT?



The United States’ legal system is supposed to be based on fairness, due
process, and equal protection. It has basic and clear rules about what
prosecutors, defenders, and judges should and should not do.

 

However, prosecutors in New York have, on far too many occasions, broken the
most basic rules to win cases, often at the expense of our constitutional
rights. This ranges from prosecutors hiding evidence that could prove someone’s
innocence to misrepresenting information to courts and juries and even to
emphasizing false testimony to get their desired ruling. This is called
Prosecutorial Misconduct, and it is a widespread problem. Prosecutorial
misconduct leads to disastrous consequences, including wrongful convictions. A
recent study of 2,400 exonerations found that almost a third of them included
prosecutorial misconduct.

 

Alarmingly, the majority of these violations are likely never discovered or
disclosed to New Yorkers. The cases on this website represent a larger crisis
that plagues New York City and State.




Listen to Derrick Hamilton, co-founder of Families and Friends of the Wrongfully
Convicted, describe his experience with prosecutorial misconduct and why we need
to hold prosecutors accountable. 





WHAT ACCOUNTABILITY NY IS DOING ABOUT IT



The biggest reason prosecutorial misconduct continues to be widespread is that
courts, district attorneys, and bar associations rarely hold prosecutors
accountable for their misconduct. In fact, the whole system incentivizes
misconduct by using “court wins” to measure prosecutorial success. Even when
appellate judges discover misconduct, they usually leave prosecutors’ names out
of the court opinions and almost never publicly discipline or sanction
prosecutors for such findings.

 

The sole mechanism for holding prosecutors accountable in New York is through
filing an official complaint regarding the prosecutor’s misconduct with a
Grievance Committee called a grievance. These committees investigate the
grievances and recommend disciplinary action, including stripping prosecutors of
their right to practice law.

 

Accountability NY – a group of law professors and activists with the support of
Civil Rights Corps – filed grievances in instances where New York courts found
prosecutors committing misconduct and those prosecutors had not yet faced public
discipline. In the grievances, the professors urge the Grievance Committees to
act. You can read the filed complaints below and on the Complaints Page.






KENNETH APPELBAUM (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #2047603

Complaint - Brady Violation



JOHN KOSINSKI (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #2452084

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



THERESE LENDINO (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #1873629

Complaint - False Testimony



PATRICK O’CONNOR (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #2777316

Complaint - Brady Violation



NICOLE ALOISE (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #4682571

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



FRANCHESCA BASSO (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #4492708

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



ROSEMARY CHAO (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #3988425

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



RACHEL BUCHTER (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #2929941

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



CHRISTOPHER DOOLEY (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #5239827

Complaint - Improper Questioning



GEORGE KANELLOPOULOS (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #4472197

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



GREGORY LENTI (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #4298907

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



BRAD LEVENTHAL (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #2235547

Complaint - Brady Violation



CHARLES TESTAGROSSA (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #1129485

Complaint - Brady Violation



JARED ROSENBLATT (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #4218806

Complaint - Improper Questioning



BENJAMIN PRED (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #5042411

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



TAYLOR PISCIONERE (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #5212717

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



TIMOTHY SHORTT (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #4776134

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



JESSE SLIGH (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #2220275

Complaint - Brady Violation



PATRICIA THEODOROU (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #2627362

Complaint - Summation Misconduct



DENISE TIRINO (QUEENS)

NY State Bar #2165249

Complaint - Summation Misconduct





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