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Defendants Move for Summary Judgment

This involves a case where the Supreme Court Appellate division held that conceivability is not equivalent to foreseebility. The Court herein granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. A New York Criminal Lawyer said the plaintiff was a tenant in a building located at 584 Academy Street in…

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Defendant Denied Right to Counsel

This case is about the Prosecution’s appeal from the order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated May 12, 1982, which granted defendant’s motion to suppress certain statements since his Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights were violated by the Police Officers. A New York Criminal Lawyer said on March 12,…

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Court Discusses Doctor Patient Privledge

Hospitals in 1955 were required by the statutory law of New York to report all procedures that involve the termination of a pregnancy. The superintendent of all New York hospitals is required to report each procedure and to subdivide the procedures into categories that reflect the nature of the termination…

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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…

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Court Finds No Probable Cause for Search

On January 20, 1984, two police officers were on patrol in a marked police car, when they observed a white, 2-door Pontiac stopped or standing adjacent to a fire hydrant, at the intersection in the Bronx. The police officer who had been operating the patrol car stopped and requested the…

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Court Discusses Crime of Barbituate Possession

At about 6:30 p.m., a 15 year old boy violated the criminal law. The boy was in unlawful barbiturates possession (Drug Possession) that can only be obtained by a doctor’s prescription. The boy, prior to his arrest, has been observed by the witness being approached by another youth who placed…

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Court Finds Evidence Submitted in Error

This case is taking place in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department. The appellant in the matter is the People of the State of New York. The respondent in the case is F.W. The defendant is appealing a judgment made by the County Court…

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Defendant Ordered to Attend Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program

This proceeding is taking place in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in St. Lawrence County. The case deals for a judgment that is pursuant to Article 78 of CPLR that was originated by a petition made by T.J. and verified on the 13th of November, 2007.…

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Appellant Claims Due Process Right Violated

The defendant in this case, R.C., is appealing a judgment made by the Supreme Court of Suffolk County. The judgment convicted the appellant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. A New York Criminal Lawyer said the appeal brings up issues of denial of the defendant’s…

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Plaintiffs Sue Author for Publishing Defamatory Matter

This case involves the respondent D.R. and the appellants. The case is being heard in the Court of Appeals of New York. The action is for defamation as the plaintiff is a Justice of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial District. He alleges that he was libeled in the…

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