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Source: Google News Alert Service, August 11, 2009

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Richard Aborn: A Progressive Running for Manhattan District ...
By Jeralyn
"Liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news. ... (Currently, the wrongfully convicted leave prison with nothing.) He supports a law mandating minimum compensation for wrongfully convicted persons. He also supports expunging criminal records of the wrongfully convicted, including records of arrest, conviction and sentencing. While Aborn led the fight to expand the use of DNA testing in 2006 to include all persons convicted of a crime, he says he does not ..."
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The Epidemic of Pot Arrests in New York City | Cannabis News ...
By admin
"First, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana is not a crime in New York State. Since 1977 and passage of the Marijuana Reform Act, state law has made simple possession of less than seventh-eights of an ounce of pot a violation, like a traffic violation. ... Yes, they certainly violate the spirit and intent of the 1977 law which explicitly sought to eliminate the pot possession arrests and the stigma of criminal records, especially for young people. ..."
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NY : The Epidemic of Pot Arrests in New York City - Marijuana.com
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"Yes, they certainly violate the spirit and intent of the 1977 law which explicitly sought to eliminate the pot possession arrests and the stigma of criminal records, especially for young people. ... Since 1997 the NYPD has used this procedure to make tens of thousands of marijuana arrests a year, averaging about a hundred a day, every day for over twelve years. This is more than ten times the average number of marijuana arrests the City made previously. ..."
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