KCCBA discusses how to improve accountability within criminal justice system
The Kings County Criminal Bar Association hosted a Continuing Legal Education seminar called, “Accountability in the Criminal Justice System,” on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights on Thursday with civil rights attorney Ron Kuby and Timothy Pearson, the president of NOBLE New York (National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives).
“Yes, the topic of wrongful convictions is being revisited again,” said KCCBA President Michael Farkas. “You may recall that in January we had the Kings County District Attorney Ken Thompson here to discuss his Conviction Integrity Unit, the most staffed and admired of its kind in the country. That program is geared more toward the end result, addressing and remedying the wrongful convictions.
“This problem is so important to our practice, to society and is so multifaceted that we believe, especially now in the enlightenment era of wrongful convictions, that we discuss it from other angles and this discussion focuses more on accountability,” he continued.