{"id":79,"date":"2023-12-25T06:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T06:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/25\/new-york-governor-vetoes-bill-to-make-conviction-challenges-easier\/"},"modified":"2023-12-25T06:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T06:36:05","slug":"new-york-governor-vetoes-bill-to-make-conviction-challenges-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/25\/new-york-governor-vetoes-bill-to-make-conviction-challenges-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"New York governor vetoes bill to make conviction challenges easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill would have expanded opportunity for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge convictions<\/p>\n<p>The New York governor, Kathy Hochul, vetoed a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wrongful-convictions-new-york-bill-00982ed3f1f30df28955624b41115a16\">bill<\/a> days before Christmas that would have made it easier for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge their convictions, a measure that was favored by criminal justice reformers but fiercely opposed by prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat said the bill\u2019s \u201csweeping expansion of eligibility for post-conviction relief\u201d would \u201cupend the judicial system and create an unjustifiable risk of flooding the courts with frivolous claims\u201d, in a veto letter released on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/dec\/24\/new-york-governor-convictions-bill-veto-criminal-justice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill would have expanded opportunity for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge convictions The New York governor, Kathy Hochul, vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have made it easier for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge their convictions, a measure that was favored by criminal justice reformers &#8230; <a title=\"New York governor vetoes bill to make conviction challenges easier\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/25\/new-york-governor-vetoes-bill-to-make-conviction-challenges-easier\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New York governor vetoes bill to make conviction challenges easier\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}