The criminal defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of sex abuse in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child, both charges arising out of a single incident that allegedly occurred when the defendant took the complaining witness to see a movie. As a preliminary matter, the…
A Queens Sex Crime Lawyer said that, on August 19, 2008, plaintiffs jointly commenced the instant action by filing a summons and complaint with the King’s County Clerk’s office under index number 23739/08. The defendants joined issue by answer dated September 8, 2008. On August 20, 2008, the other plaintiff…
These are appeals from an amended order of the Family Court of Columbia County entered 3 December 2009, which, in proceeding No. 1 pursuant to Family Ct. Act article 6, clarified a prior order of custody and from an order of said court, entered 3 May 2010, which dismissed petitioner’s…
This proceeding involves an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County rendered 17 June 2002 convicting him of rape in first degree, sodomy in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree (three counts) and burglary in the second degree, upon a jury…
Claimant ABA was wrongfully convicted on charges that he sexually abused his four-year-old daughter, including rape and sodomy. He was imprisoned for over two years—783 days—on multiple concurrent sentences, the longest of which was for 8 1/3 to 25 years, primarily in maximum security prisons, before his conviction was reversed…
A Queens Sex Crimes Lawyer said that, the defendant was charged by a felony complaint with Rape in the Second Degree (Penal Law § 130.30) and Endangering the Welfare of a Child (PL § 260.10(1)). Pursuant to a plea bargain, the defendant pleaded guilty to one count of Attempted Rape…
This is a proceeding wherein the petitioner seeks leave pursuant to article 6 of the Civil Rights Law to change her surname to that of her same-sex life partner. Her partner has consented to the application before a notary public. The court’s research does not reveal any published New York…
A Queens Criminal Lawyer said that, defendant has applied for an order granting him ‘permission to inspect the minutes of the Grand Jury, or, in the alternative dismissing’ a three-count indictment accusing him, and a co-defendant, of (1) Assault, 2d Degree, committed July 17, 1965, ‘by willfully and wrongfully using…
This is a juvenile delinquency proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 3 wherein the appeal is from an order of disposition of the Family Court, Queens County dated 6 October 1999, which, upon a fact-finding order of the same court dated 8 September 1999, made after a hearing, finding…
This is a proceeding wherein the defendant, AS, seeks to vacate the second felony offender adjudication and the accompanying sentence, both from 12 October 2005 pursuant to C.P.L. 440.20 of this court dated 19 May 2010. The court denied defendant’s motion. The defense has filed a motion to re-argue and…