A Special Prosecutor to Investigate and Prosecute Matters Relating to the Deaths of Civilians C...
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11/13/19 N.Y. St. Reg. Exec. Order No. 147.30
NEW YORK STATE REGISTER
VOLUME XLI, ISSUE 46
November 13, 2019
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 Letitia James, my order and requirement, embodied in Executive Order Number one hundred and forty-seven, dated July 8, 2015, is hereby amended to include an additional paragraph to the penultimate paragraph as amended by Executive Order Numbers 147.1 - 147.29 to read as follows:
FURTHER, the requirement imposed on the Special Prosecutor by this Executive Order shall include the investigation, and if warranted, prosecution:
(dd) 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 DeWayne Watkins on June 18, 2019, in Niagara County.
| (L.S.) | GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State in the City of Albany this seventeenth day of October in the year two thousand nineteen. |
| BY THE GOVERNOR | |
| /S/ Andrew M. Cuomo | |
| /s/ Melissa DeRosa | |
| Secretary to the Governor |
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