In July 1996, after a prior order of protection expired, plaintiff obtained a second order of protection against her former boyfriend in Bronx Criminal Court. She delivered the order to the Domestic Violence Unit at her local police precinct and asked that it be served on her former boyfriend. At…
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Court Decides Unusual Sex Crimes Case
It may be common for anyone of us to hear or watch rape cases in the news but we never realize how hard it is to handle with the right legal procedurures. One case that was very complicated to assess and it involved three men as the ones who are…
Court Decides Whether Defendant Will Attend Sex Offender Program
Sex crime violators are very rampant these days according to a New York Criminal Lawyer who once gathered surveys and studies about it. The factors that led to this are way too many to mention but what is important is that there are solutions and programs provided to help even…
Court Rules of Complex Drug Possession Case
According to a New York Drug Crime Lawyer , a 33-year old man was indicted by a jury and charged with marijua posssession. Court records showed that the defendant was a second felony offender but not a violent offender. During the course of plea negotiations, the defendant was offered by…
Court Decides Drug Case where Weapons were Involved
A 44-year old man was convicted, following a jury trial, of various crimes stemming from a shootout during which two innocent bystanders were injured. The defendant thereafter was sentenced as a second felony offender to an aggregate term of 30 years in prison with five years of post-release supervision. The…
Admissibility of Evidence Challenged in Sex Crimes Case
Francis McCann was charged with one count each of first degree sodomy, first degree robbery, first degree sexual abuse and two counts of criminal weapon possession in the fourth degree. The crimes allegedly occurred on June 13, 1976 but Mr. McCann was not indicted until January 24, 1980. A New…
Bank Robbers Arrested
Two alleged bank robbers have been arrested, claimed a New York Criminal Lawyer. While police and FBI spokespeople have had few public comments yet, the two robbers are believed to be behind other recent bank robberies in a different district this month. The arrests are part of a joint law…
City Official Resigns After Controversial Arrest for DWI
A city official stepped down from his position early Tuesday morning following his arrest earlier this month on DWI charges in a borough of New Jersey. His resignation was made official in the form of a letter to the mayor. The former official faces not only the charges of driving…
DWI Probable Cause of Back-to-Back Wrecks in California
A 27-year-old man rammed his vehicle into the back of another on an interstate in Riverside, California, then went on to drive the wrong way down the freeway, eventually getting into a head-on collision with another vehicle, California Highway Patrol officials said. The driver is suspected of a possible DWI.…
LeBron’s Mother Arrested for Battery in Miami
The mother of LeBron James, major star of the Miami Heat, was arrested on charges of assault, battery and disorderly intoxication. A contentious encounter with a valet at a Miami Beach hotel ended with the arrest. The 43-year-old woman was arrested because she reportedly struck a valet around 5 a.m.…