Tentative deal reached to modify New York’s discovery reform law

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters in Albany on Tuesday that lawmakers had reached a tentative agreement to modify the state’s 2019 discovery reform law, which currently mandates that prosecutors promptly share evidence in criminal cases.State legislators have spent months negotiating with Gov. Kathy Hochul and district attorneys over proposed changes to the law. The revised deal aims to ease some of the stringent requirements around evidence disclosure and make it harder for cas