Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bill O'Reilly on the Big Brawl in Albany

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

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Big brawl in Albany. Now, what do you care, right? Albany, oh, no, why do you care? You're living in the Big Apple. You're living in Westchester, Suffolk, Nassau, Rockland. You're living in Connecticut, Jersey. Why do you care? Because people are getting hurt.

And if you care about your fellow man, you're going to listen to me right now. So the legislature in Albany is dominated by far-left nuts, cranks, loons, who don't know or care much about anything. And they have passed a law that puts a tremendous burden on prosecuting criminals. The law, and I'm going to break it down to you, was passed in 2019. It's Article 245 of the Criminal Procedure Law that requires any prosecution of any individual in New York State to turn over information to that person's defense attorney

in an unrealistic time frame. So it takes time to accumulate information to prosecute somebody, which is why trials are six months, eight months, after the arrest. This law says, if you don't give the information by this date, then the charges are dismissed, and that's leading to unbelievable chaos. So did you know that in New York City dismissals of criminal cases rose 22% since this law was passed? 22%. Because the DA's offices couldn't get the information to the defense attorneys. And they didn't have to.

There was no reason. And a lot of this is who's saying what. So say you have a gang member in the Bronx who is stabbed somebody and the person dies and a gang member is being charged with murder and two people witnessed the stabbing. Well, the lawyers for the alleged killer. killer can get the witnesses' names, addresses, and everything else, and share the information with the accused killer who then tells his buddies, we don't want to see these people around. Got it? That is unbelievable. That you're putting witnesses to crimes in danger because of this

stupid progressive law that Kathy Hokel supported until she did. Now she wants to modify it now because she knows she's going to lose the primary. Hogle's not going to run again because she is very weak and people don't like her here. So she's trying to claw back. Now she says, oh, no, let's modify it a little bit. But the progressives in the state legislature go, no, no, we like it this way. We want criminals to get off. We want the cases dismissed.

So the criminals go back and do it again. And believe me, every sleazy defense lawyer, everyone knows they can make unreasonable demands of the prosecution and the likelihood the case will be dismissed goes way up. They know it. And the witnesses know it too. So if you're a regular person living in the Bronx with three kids and you see a murder, you're not going to cooperate because you don't want to be dead or your kids hurt or whatever. Do you all get this?

Albany, they care about that? No. That's where we are in New York State. Anybody who votes Democrat now, and I'm not an ideologue. I'm a registered independent. If you pull a lever for a Democrat in a state election, you're spitting in the face of everyone else. You're putting everyone, including you and your family in danger. How's that for a statement? It's true. This has got to go. We need a total reform of Albany. All of these people have to go. But I don't know what it's going to take. I mean, guys like me, WABC Radio, we speak on it all time, but I don't know if it's going to get through.