By petition filed, a juvenile is alleged to have committed acts which, were he an adult, would constitute the crimes on criminal possession of a weapon in the third and fourth degrees and possession of pistol or revolver ammunition. The matter arose from incident where a police officer was on…
At approximately 11:30 p.m., a student was shot to death. Four days later, detectives investigating the homicide were informed that an individual, arrested on an unrelated robbery, claimed to have information about the gun crime. The individual told the detectives that he had overheard a conversation in a local candy…
In this Criminal Gun Crime action, a Motion ‘for an order granting the defendant a permission to inspect the grand jury minutes and the testimony upon which the indictment herein was founded, or in the alternative for an order dismissing the indictment against the defendant charging him with the crime…
The defendant moves to suppress physical evidence and his statements. He was charged of crimes of burglary in the second degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree. A Queens County Criminal lawyer said that in October 2011 a…
The People appealed from an order of the Supreme Court, in this Criminal case, which, after a hearing, suppressed the use of a gun and a cartridge as evidence against the defendants. The indictment charges the defendants with the crime of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree,…
One evening, police officers were called to an alleyway and found a lifeless body of a man, who had been fatally shot in the right temple with a .25 caliber pistol. At trial, evidence revealed that the owner of the caliber pistol, the alleged offender, was a member of a…
In August1995, after a jury trial, defendant was convicted of committing the crimes of Kidnapping in the First and Second Degrees and Unlawful Imprisonment in the Second Degree. Thereafter, he was sentenced to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from fifteen years to life on the top count and to…
This is a Criminal case wherein defendant appeals from the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained on the search of his person and arrest as well as from the conviction after trial. A Queens County Criminal lawyer said that in March 1966, in the early evening, a Patrolman…
A Queens Criminal Lawyer said that, on the evening of September 24, 1971, New York City Officers Santiago and Braga were assigned to a taxi and truck surveillance unit. At about 8:00 p.m., they stopped a 1963 or 1965 blue Buick Riviera with Queens County license plates on Morningside Drive…
A Queens Criminal Lawyer said that, defendant was originally charged by a Queens County Grand Jury with one count of murder in the second degree, two counts of criminal use of a firearm in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree emanating from the…