Exec._Order_No._147.3 A Special Prosecutor to Investigate and Prosecute Matters Relating to the Deaths of Civilians Caused by Law Enforcement Officers.

3/30/16 N.Y. St. Reg. Exec. Order No. 147.3

NEW YORK STATE REGISTER

VOLUME XXXVIII, ISSUE 13

March 30, 2016

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 8, 2015, is hereby amended to include two additional paragraphs to the penultimate paragraph as amended by Executive Order Number 147.1, to read as follows:

FURTHER, the requirement imposed on the Special Prosecutor by this Executive Order shall include the investigation, and if warranted, prosecution:

(b) 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 Joseph Seguin on November 30, 2015, in Putnam County.

(c) 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 Miguel Espinal on December 8, 2015, in Westchester County.

(L.S.)	GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State in the City of Albany this seventh day of March in the year two thousand sixteen.
	BY THE GOVERNOR
	/S/ Andrew M. Cuomo
	/s/ William J. Mulrow
	Secretary to the Governor