Hearings result in few changes of cases handled by former officers

Hearings were held this week in more than 40 cases in which three former Rockland police officers, enmeshed in an animal cruelty case, were to have testified. In the end, only a few cases were dismissed and agreements are being reached in many of other criminal cases. District Attorney Natasha Irving said that she notified attorneys for defendants and defendants who had no lawyers of the potential credibility ...