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GOV. CUOMO is mounting a push to overhaul the state’s criminal justice system — changing bail standards, speeding up trials and raising the age at which teens are tried as adults.

In a Martin Luther King Day column for the Daily News, Cuomo argued that the crusade for justice started by the legendary civil rights leader is not over — and finishing it requires righting wrongs in the justice system.

“We still have a judicial system that is supposed to be blind, but that all too often finds the scales of justice tipped by resources or race,” Cuomo wrote.

Cuomo is proposing legislation to make a series of changes, including allowing judges to consider whether a defendant poses a risk to the community when they set bail.

He wants to add more teeth to the constitutionally guaranteed right to a “speedy trial,” which is often thwarted by delays in the overwhelmed court system. People held in custody, instead of just their attorneys, would have to consent to a speedy trial waiver, which would also have to be approved by a judge.

“It is true for suspects and victims alike: Justice delayed is justice denied,” Cuomo wrote.

Cuomo also wants to require police to videotape interrogations of suspects in serious offenses.

And, he is pushing to allow identifications from lineups to be used at trial, which is currently barred, while tightening the rules on how lineups are conducted. The officer who is performing an investigation could not be the same cop who accompanies a victim to the lineup, to eliminate any suspicion that victims were being coached.

In a proposal Cuomo has pushed before but has not gotten through, he is asking the Legislature to change laws that require 16- and 17-year olds to be tried as adults. New York is one of only two states with that requirement.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. hailed the proposals. “The governor is raising some critical criminal justice issues where New York has lagged behind other states,” he told The News.

The changes should not be seen as “soft on crime,” Vance said, adding that allowing lineup identifications to be used in court, for one, would “help prosecutors putting cases together.”

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