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The Race ...

Manhattan District Attorney

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Election Results ...

General Election Results

Robert Morgenthau

Primary Results

Robert Morgenthau

Candidates...

The Incumbent:
Robert Morgenthau

General Election Challenger(s):

Primary Election Challenger(s):
Leslie Crocker Snyder

(Candidate Biographies below)

Feature Articles ...

Politics and Prosecutors

March 7, 2005

As they prosecute crimes, district attorneys are supposed to be above politics. But to keep their jobs, the prosecutors have to win elections. And this year, two city DAs face unusually tough election challenges. More ...

Candidate Bios ...

The Incumbent:

Robert Morgenthau | Dem | Rep | WFP |
Robert Morris Morgenthau was elected as attorney for Manhattan, New York in 1974. He served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for eight years.

Challenger(s):

Leslie Crocker Snyder | Dem |
Leslie Crocker Snyder is an attorney for Kasowitz, Benson, Torres and Friedman. She is former New York State Supreme Court justice. She has also served as an Assistant District Attorney, Chief of Trials at the Office of the Special Prosecutor, and Deputy Criminal Justice Coordinator and Head of the Arson Strike Force at the Office of the New York City Criminal Justice Coordinator. She is a frequent commentator on Court TV and is a legal consultant to the television show "Law and Order."

Campaign Trail ...

Below are the latest Campaign Trail items for the Manhattan District Attorney race. For the full Campaign Trail archive, go here

Morgenthau Wins by Comfortable Margin

September 14, 2005
Robert Morgenthau, for 30 years the Manhattan district attorney, yesterday beat back Leslie Crocker Snyder, his first serious challenger in two decades. His victory assures his re-election, because he has no Republican opponent in the general election.
(New York Times)

Final Swirl Of Activity In Race For Manhattan Prosecutor

September 13, 2005
Despites polls showing him having a huge lead, recently, and especially after Leslie Crocker Snyder picked up the endorsement of The New York Times's editorial page on Aug. 30, 30-year incumbent Robert Morgenthau, 86, has started campaigning fiercely, hitting subway stops with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and, last night, with former Mayor Edward I. Koch.
(NY Times)

Morgenthau Faces Tough Challenge

September 11, 2005
For the first time in 20 years, Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau faces a real challenger with a real chance to win: Leslie Crocker Snyder, 63, a no-nonsense ex-judge who raised the incumbent's age and tenure as campaign issues. (Newsday)

Morgenthau Says Snyder Has Switched Stand on Death Penalty

September 12, 2005
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s campaign is charging that his challenger, Leslie Crocker Snyder, is lying about her position on capital punishment. In one flyer, Snyder, who has previously supported the death penalty, says she opposes it. In another mailing, she says she "believes in ending the death penalty except in the most extreme cases like terrorism, child killing and other heinous crimes.” (Daily News)

Members of Congress Back Morgenthau

September 10, 2005
Manhattan's entire congressional delegation, and even a representative from the Bronx, Jose Serrano, endorsed incumbent District Attorney Robert Morgenthau yesterday. (Daily News)

Morgenthau Declines to Criticize Snyder After Pushing Match

September 9, 2005
Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau declined yesterday to criticize Leslie Crocker Snyder, his Democratic primary rival, after aides to both candidates got into a shoving match.

(New York Post)

Snyder Criticizes Morgenthau on Drug Laws

September 9, 2005
In her latest salvo against Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, his Democratic primary opponent, Leslie Crocker Snyder, unveiled a new advertisement yesterday that contends that his office thwarted efforts to change the Rockefeller-era drug laws.

(New York Times)

Trailing Morgenthau on the Stump

September 8, 2005
While Mr. Morgenthau contends that he has reduced crime in Manhattan more than it has been reduced anywhere else in the city “by far,” Ms. Snyder countered that this had little or nothing to do with him, but was due instead to the policies of the city’s Mayors and police commissioners and other sociological factors. “He virtually has nothing to do it,” she argued.
Ms. Snyder has also called for a special court to handle the most serious cases of domestic violence and a special bureau with prosecutors who will handle only domestic-violence cases, an area she was a trailblazer in. Mr. Morgenthau generally opposes specialized prosecutors and the community courts, which The Times’ editorial board hailed as innovative.
One such court in midtown was established over his objections.
“And quite frankly, that court was put there because of the pressure brought by The New York Times,” said Mr. Morgenthau, who refused to talk about the newspaper’s endorsement. “I didn’t think any institution or business group should be allowed to buy their own court.” (New York Observer)

Amsterdam News Endorses Morgenthau

September 1, 2005
It pleases us to support the current District Attorney of Manhattan, Robert M. Morgenthau.
With 30 years in office, Mr. Morgenthau has seen crime reduced in almost every category in which records are kept.
He has initiated programs and set up offices in communities of greatest need in Manhattan, and hired competent professionals with roots to the community to staff those offices.
He is an opponent of the death penalty and is a strong supporter of human and civil rights.
His is a voice that the Black community, especially, could look to for fairness not only in terms of his staff, but in terms of how he insisted that his staff prosecute crimes. For the mistake made such as in the prosecution of the kids in the Central Park jogger case, Mr. Morgenthau was strong enough, and open enough, to insist that those convictions be overturned. (Amsterdam News)

Observer Endorses Morgenthau for Manhattan DA

September 8, 2005
For the first time in years, the Manhattan District Attorney has a serious electoral challenge on his hands. But there is no reason for the borough¹s voters to turn aside the legendary Robert Morgenthau. (New York Observer)

A Bitter Contest for Manhattan Prosecutor

September 8, 2005
How heated has the primary battle for Manhattan district attorney become? Consider this: A street scuffle broke out on Tuesday night between the staffs of the incumbent, Robert M. Morgenthau, and his opponent, Leslie Crocker Snyder, after a campaign stop. (Newsday) (New York Times)

Judge Smacks Morgenthau in Push for Snyder Records

September 8, 2005
A Supreme Court judge yesterday slammed the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, accusing it of misusing its powers "for inappropriate political purposes." (Daily News)

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