The accused, a bachelor of approximately thirty-seven years of age met an incoming plane at LaGuardia Airport, from which disembarked a twenty-year-old petite, attractive second-year student woman, an unworldly girl, evidently unacquainted with New York City and the sophisticated city ways, a girl who proved to be, as indicated by…
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Court Finds Insufficient Evidence for Grand Jury Indictment of Rape
The Facts: Two male persons, defendants, forcibly abducted the victim (of the assaults) in an automobile. While being carried away in the car, the victim was given a choice of either participating in sodomy or submitting to rape but refused either alternative. A New York Sex Crimes Lawyer said after…
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In New York when an offender commits a sexually related offense, he or she is charged a fee that is designed to defray some of the costs that are incurred by the courts for the prosecution of their case. The surcharge is usually $200.00 plus a victim fee of $10.00.…
Court Determines if Jury Instructions Were Misleading
In the early 1970’s the rape law in New York required that the complaint of the victim had to be corroborated by a third person in order to obtain a conviction. A New York Sex Crimes Lawyer said this seems archaic these days and made it almost impossible for a…
Court Decides What to Do with Money Uncovered During Crime
On March 1982, a police officer assisted in the arrest of a man after a search of his rented car. The search was allegedly based on probable cause. Drug paraphernalia amounting to $8,605 was found on the floor behind the driver’s seat and several suitcases of marijuana were also found…
Court Decides if Indictment Should Stand Due to Lack of Jurisdiction
A drug dealer in New York contacted a Lebanese courier who would be bringing ten kilograms of heroin into the United States. The drug dealer’s business constituted street-dealing heroin in Brooklyn. He agreed to meet the Lebanese courier in Boston, Massachusetts. A New York Sex Crimes Lawyer said that in…
Defendant Contends He Was Not Given Psychiatric Evaluation
A man was arrested for alleged acts of sodomy with a 12-year-old male child and was indicted on five counts, all involving such acts. He pleaded not guilty. Although the record is incomplete as to the various steps which were taken thereafter, it is clear that the man was sent…
Defendant Contends Grand Jury Indictment
A New York Sex Crimes Lawyer said a man was convicted of rape, a sex crime, in South Carolina sometime in October 19, 1992. He was sentenced to a prison term and he has fully served his prison sentence. During his incarceration, the Sex Offender Registration Act was enacted which…
Court Confirms Probable Cause for Defendant’s Arrest
In the early morning hours of May 11, 2004, near Sheridan Avenue in Brooklyn, the man accosted the woman, grabbed her around the neck, pointed a knife at her, and demanded money. When she told him that she had none, he pulled her into a nearby yard and raped her…
Court Discusses the SORA act
The Facts: On 15 November 1988, the respondent was arrested in Kings County and subsequently indicted for robbery in the first degree and related offenses. A New York Drug Possession Lawyer said on 15 November 1989, he entered a plea of guilty to attempted robbery in the first degree. Sentencing…