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Kathy Hochul: “Dismissals surged from, get this, 10,000 dismissals across…”

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Published | Video Starts at 10:19

But finally, we had a case where saying, let's look at the record. Do we go too far? Can we fix this? And so dismissals surged under those laws. Dismissals surged from, get this, 10,000 dismissals across the state in 2019 to almost 50,000 dismissals in 2024. Look at that. That's 50,000 victims who did not get justice. I'm sure that there were numbers of those that were justified, but for the ones that were dismissed on … (10:19–10:32)

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