Assistant District Attorney: Community Justice Bureau

Job description

Job Description JOB SUMMARY: The Bronx District Attorney’s Office seeks a well-qualified staff whose diverse backgrounds contribute to serve the over 1.4 million members of the Bronx County community and pursue a safer Bronx through fair justice. The Alternatives to Incarceration Bureau is seeking experienced attorneys (3+ years) to serve Assistant District Attorneys, The Community Justice Bureau’s (CJB) mission is to provide treatment opportunities to defendants who may benefit from intervention in appropriate cases. The Bureau is primarily responsible for seeking meaningful case dispositions other than incarceration, while recognizing the needs of victims, the community, and defendants. Under the direction of the Bureau Chief for CJB, Assistant District Attorneys in the Bureau facilitate pleas for all felonies and most misdemeanors involving drug treatment and/or mental health treatment and supervise all such cases through ultimate disposition. Assistants also offers guidance on all misdemeanors where alternative programming may be appropriate, such as social services and community service or where defendants assert a defense of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defe...