In this case, the appellant was tried before the court without a jury and found guilty of the crime of breaking and entering a dwelling with intent to commit a felony, to-wit, grand larceny, and of the crime of grand larceny. A New York Criminal Lawyer said that separate sentences…
This case is about an appellant who was adjudicated guilty, after a jury trial, for inciting a riot under Section 870.01(2), Florida Statutes (1981). A New York Criminal Lawyer said the appellant argued that the evidence presented by the prosecution was insufficient to support his conviction. Although the sufficiency of…
Defendant Riley M. was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree (drug possession) (Penal Law sec. 220.03), criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree (Penal Law sec. 220.50), loitering in the first degree (Penal Law sec. 240.36), resisting arrest (Penal Law sec.…
On September 24, 2005, Police Officer Frantz Demorin of the 47th Precinct was on uniformed patrol with his partner, Police Officer Merritt, traveling southbound on Bronx Boulevard in the Bronx. Officer Demorin was driving the patrol car and his partner was seated in the front passenger seat. As he approached…
A man was arrested and charged with criminal heroin possession and sale sometime in August of 1973. The man stood trial and opted to testify in his own behalf. A New York Criminal Lawyer said he testified that the police officers who arrested him pressured him into becoming a police…
Two known low-level drug dealers who sold marijuana were found shot in the apartment they shared. The police were investigating the murders. The police then questioned their known associates. A New York Criminal Lawyer said one of the murder victims’ known associates the police talked to admitted that he was…
Petitioner was convicted in the Supreme Court, New York County, of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to imprisonment for an indeterminate term of 15 to 25 years. On January 10, 1973 petitioner was paroled with a maximum expiration date of March 15, 1989. A…
On November 29, 1976 petitioner was indicted with a drug crime in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, and charged with several counts, the first of which alleged that from January 1, 1976 to November 18, 1976 certain defendants, including petitioner, “did knowingly and wilfully combine, conspire,…
In this case, two police officers were on routine motor patrol in Bronx County when they observed a car with its trunk lock “popped out.” They directed the driver of the car to stop. As the officers approached the car, a single passenger in the rear appeared to be fumbling…
This involves a drug crime case where the court concluded that the warrantless seizure of the package by the police officers to the defendant was proper. The police obtained a search warrant for 2130 East Tremont Avenue, Apartment 7E, in Bronx County in conjunction with a long-term narcotics investigation, during…