In January 1992, respondent pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree robbery, and single counts of first-degree burglary, first-degree rape, and first-degree sodomy. This plea satisfied charges arising from two separate criminal incidents—the robbery of a gas station attendant and a home invasion—for which respondent was arrested and indicted separately…
This case is a consolidation of eight juvenile delinquency proceedings for a dispositional hearing after a determination that each respondent has committed at least one act which, if committed by an adult, would constitute a crime. In each case, the court requested that the New York City Department of Probation…
This is a proceeding wherein the defendant, D.S.D. entered a plea of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to CPL 220.15 to the crime of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, and to other related offenses. It was alleged that on 23 January…
On 23 October 2003, pursuant to the Sexual Offender Registration Act (SORA), the Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders (“the Board”) submitted a Risk Assessment Instrument (RAI) and recommended that defendant be designated as a Risk Level 2 Sexually Violent Offender upon his release from custody, based on his conviction…
On 3 May 2000, at approximately 11:00 p.m. within the vicinity of East 23rd Street and White Plains Road in Bronx County, S was with her friend R. There they saw defendant, MW, whom R knew. R talked to him while S was standing close by. S and R then…
This is an Article 78 proceeding filed by petitioner UJC against the respondents, the New York Police Department (NYPD) and its commissioner, to compel the production of records relating to raids on certain bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism (BDSM) establishments, pursuant to New York’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) (Public…
This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County rendered 5 May 2008 convicting him of rape in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of suppression of…
This is a proceeding wherein the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered 25 July 1980, convicting him of rape in the first degree, unlawful imprisonment in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and…
This is a proceeding wherein pursuant to an ex parte order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, entered 3 December 1971, the plaintiff, RMB, was appointed guardian ad litem for the infant ‘R’ and all similarly situated members of a class of unborn infants of less than 24 weeks’ gestation…
A New York Criminal Lawyer said that, the New York State recently enacted an amendment to its Criminal Procedure Law granting victims of certain sex crimes the right to require the convicted defendant to submit to HIV related testing and the complainant in this case has applied for an order…