The defendant moves for an order vacating the judgment of conviction on the ground that he was denied effective assistance of counsel in that his attorney failed to advise him of the risk of deportation when he pled guilty. The Probation Department opposes the motion. For the reasons stated below,…
A Kings Criminal Lawyer said that, this is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered April 22, 2009, in Kings County, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, criminal contempt in the first degree, and criminal contempt in the second degree,…
A Kings Domestic Violence Lawyer said that, the defendant was charged with, inter alia, harassment in the second degree based on numerous harassing and threatening telephone calls he allegedly made to his former paramour, with whom he had two children. On January 18, 2007, a misdemeanor complaint was filed charging…
A Kings Domestic Violence Lawyer said that, defendant move to have the People produce specified documents. Defendant claims that the records are vital to the preparation of her defense based upon the “Battered Woman’s Syndrome” (BWS). Defendant has commenced three separate proceedings for the documents. Defendant has issued a subpoena…
The parties were married in New York in May 2002. While married, the father worked as a first grade teacher and the mother worked as a mandarin interpreter. The criminal parties knew each other for only a short time prior to their marriage, at which point, the mother became pregnant…
The court heard credible compelling testimony from the parties long-time rabbi and spiritual leader who not only was involved for many years with the wife’s organization as an advisor, but whose young daughter was a close friend of the youngest child; the parents entertaining each other at respective homes. Once…
A Kings Domestic Violence Lawyer said that, New York City Administration for Children’s Services (hereinafter petitioner) filed an application for a prepetition ex parte court order seeking access to enter the home of a family subject to an ongoing child protective investigation that was commenced by a report to the…
A Kings Domestic Violence Lawyer said that, this court is called upon inter alia to make certain decisions based upon a dispute involving allegations that a mother, through her actions, actively and passively alienated and influenced a child to the point that the child may no longer have any inclination…
A Kings Criminal Family Lawyer said that, petitioner mother and guardian of her daughter and son, who reside with petitioner, seeks a court order changing her name and her children’s names because petitioner is a domestic violence victim; her abuser knows all her identifying information; and she fears that her…
Plaintiff-husband moves, by order to show cause for an order: (1) directing defendant-wife to produce the subject child, in the court; and (2) transferring custody from the wife to the husband; and (3) granting such other and further relief as the court may determine. A Kings County Family attorney said…