Meet the Candidate | Steve Mulroy

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLATFORM: 2021-2022

• PRIORITIZE VIOLENT CRIME—redirect resources from minor, nonviolent offenses to serious, violent offenses. Use DA’s discretion to seek, for nonviolent offenses, community-based alternatives to expensive, sometimes counterproductive  long term prison sentences. Free up resources to target repeat violent offenders.

• BAIL REFORM—people not convicted of a crime should not languish in jail for no reason other than that they can’t afford cash bail. Use discretion to provide alternatives to pretrial detention for people not convicted of any crime.  Where appropriate, avoid cash bail.  Where bail is appropriate, ensure that the bail is affordable and particularized to the individual defendant’s financial circumstances. Where the defendant is either a flight risk or a danger to the community, deny bail outright.

• JUVENILE JUSTICE—reduce transfer to adult court for  young children and those accused of nonviolent crimes.  Restore federal Department of Justice  monitoring of Juvenile Court to correct racially disproportionate charging, detention, and sentencing.

• OPPOSE MASS INCARCERATION & MINIMUM MANDATORY SENTENCING 

• COST EFFECTIVE PROSECUTIONS—require prosecutors to provide the judge  an estimate of the cost of incarceration at sentencing.

• RESTORATIVE JUSTICE—develop real, regularly used community-based interventions for property crimes, where victims can participate in arranging for restitution.

• CONVICTION INTEGRITY UNIT—establish Conviction Integrity Unit, as used in Nashville DA, to review prior cases for possible errors, wrongful convictions, etc.

• JUVENILE COURT—support expansion of Juvenile Court jurisdiction to age 25, due to modern science on teen brain development.

• “RED FLAG” LAW—support passage of a state “red flag” law, allowing court orders to temporarily take away guns from persons judicially deemed dangerous due to domestic violence incidents, mental health issues, etc.

• MAKE USE OF COURT DIVISIONS THAT PRIORITIZE REHABILITATION—Drug Court, Veterans Court, and Mental Health Court

• APPOINT INDEPENDENT PROSECUTORS TO INVESTIGATE POLICE-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS

On his Own Words | Steve Mulroy

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