A Special Prosecutor to Investigate and Prosecute Matters Relating to the Deaths of Civilians C...
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7/12/17 N.Y. St. Reg. Exec. Order No. 147.8
NEW YORK STATE REGISTER
VOLUME XXXIX, ISSUE 28
July 12, 2017
EXECUTIVE ORDERS
A Special Prosecutor to Investigate and Prosecute Matters Relating to the Deaths of Civilians Caused by Law Enforcement Officers
In view of the request of Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, my order and requirement, embodied in Executive Order number one hundred and forty seven, dated July 8th, 2015, is hereby amended to include an additional paragraph to the penultimate paragraph as amended by Executive Order Numbers 147.1-147.7, to read as follows:
FURTHER, the requirement imposed on the Special Prosecutor by this Executive Order shall include the investigation, and if warranted, prosecution:
(h) of any and all unlawful acts or omissions or alleged unlawful acts or omissions by any law enforcement officer, as listed in subdivision 34 of section 1.20 of the Criminal Procedure Law, arising out of, relating to, or in any way connected with the death of Warren Corbitt on October 14, 2016 in Dutchess County.
| (L.S.) | GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State in the City of Albany this fifteenth day of June in the year two thousand seventeen. |
| BY THE GOVERNOR | |
| /S/ Andrew M. Cuomo | |
| /s/ Melissa DeRosa | |
| Secretary to the Governor |
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