Yes, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has downgraded felonies as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said, but it’s a common practice among peer counties.
presented evidence against former President Donald Trump to a grand jury, which indicted Trump. Trump faces 34 felony counts, and is accused of falsifying business records as a way to protect his presidential aspirations.
Bragg’s approach to running the district attorney’s office has been the target of Republican criticism since he took office in January 2022. The case against Trump has increased GOP attacks on Bragg, a former federal prosecutor from Harlem. Felonies are more serious charges, and can lead to more than one year in jail. Misdemeanors are lesser charges, and carry a penalty of up to a year in jail.
Under Bragg, prosecutors downgraded a greater share of felony charges to misdemeanors than in recent history in Manhattan. In 2021, under his predecessor, 47% of felonies were downgraded to misdemeanors. In 2020, when the city was under the strain of COVID quarantines and related judicial delays, that figure was 35%. It was 39% in 2019 and 40% in 2018. Data from 2023 show that so far, 54% of felonies have been downgraded to misdemeanors.
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