This case is being heard in the Supreme Court of the state of New York in New York County. The People of the State of New York are the petitioners in this matter and the respondent is J.S.. Case Facts A New York Criminal Lawyer said J.S., the respondent in…
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Appellant Contends Malicious Prosecution
A.R. is the appellant and respondent of this particular case. The respondent and appellant of the matter is the City of New York. Case Background The plaintiff, A.R. was a college student in 1984 and was studying to be a teacher. He was employed part time at the Concourse Day…
Key Witness Recants Testimony
Defendant is currently serving a prison term of twenty-five years to life, having been convicted of Murder in the Second Degree for shooting and killing Cesar Vasquez on the evening of July 16, 1991. Defendant and his co-defendant were convicted after a jury trial based on identifications made by a…
Court Discusses Elements of a Criminal Conspiracy
The two accused men, charged with the crimes of Criminal Sale of a Dangerous Drug and Conspiracy (drug possession), move to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that the prosecution puts them in jeopardy again for crimes of which they already have been convicted in another jurisdiction. They contend, in…
Defendant Retracts Her Confession
On 2009, a seventeen years old girl was arrested and subsequently accused of felony charges in two separately docketed felony complaints. She was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (drug possession) when an undercover police officer alleged in the complaint that she along several…
Defense Contends Unreasonable Delay in Sentencing
Defendant is a violent predicate felon. On June 6, 1996, he entered a plea of guilty to the crime of assault in the second degree pursuant to Penal Law, Sec. 120.05(7), a subdivision which is applicable to assaults committed inside a prison facility. A New York Criminal Lawyer said he…
Defendant Convicted of Intent to Distribute
The defendant’s convictions arose from a series of drug transactions which began when a certain person contacted another person and informed the latter that he had heroin for sale. A New York Criminal Lawyer said the former was unaware that the latter was a confidential informant for the Drug Enforcement…
Defendant Claims he was Denied a Right to a Speedy Trial
On February 1986, there was a gathering of people in the apartment of a woman. The woman requested a man to bring to that event several glassine bags of a white powdery substance which the state asserts was heroin (heroin possession). At some time during the course of the evening…
Appellant Argues Sentencing Guidelines were Inaccurate
In this case, a New York Criminal Lawyer said the Appellant sought review of the sentences imposed based upon inaccurate sentencing guidelines scoresheet, and a written probation order that included a condition which was not pronounced orally at the sentencing hearing. The court reversed the sentence imposed and remanded the…
Court Hears Cocaine Possession Case
In this criminal case, the defendant was arrested by a Police Officer at 144th Street in Manhattan and charged with possession of a 9mm firearm. A New York Criminal Lawyer said that while en route to the 32nd Precinct, he initiated a conversation with the Police Officer in which he…