In the latest move in his ongoing public-relations campaign, embattled Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sent a memo Friday to his line prosecutors that partially undid his controversial Day One memo.
In the new notice, Bragg wrote that “the Memorandum has been a source of confusion, rather than clarity,” and reiterated his trust in his assistant district attorneys’ discretion.
In addition, he reversed two stipulations of the previous memo. In Manhattan from here on, robberies that involve a firearm will be prosecuted as such — even if the gun is unloaded — and gun possession will be prosecuted as a standalone felony. Bragg also repeated that his office will prosecute violence against police officers.
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Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Adapted from City Journal.
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