The 2019 changes to the state’s discovery law have contributed to a massive growth in domestic violence case dismissals and other case dismissals, according to an April 14 report by the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.
Flaws with the current discovery law are leading to “incredibly high [case] dismissal rates that leave survivors without justice,” according to the report.
The report says that in New York City, 94 percent of domestic violence cases are dismissed. This is a 26 percent jump from 2019, when the reforms to the discovery law were put in place. Outside New York City, the state has a domestic violence dismissal rate of 49 percent….