This is a criminal case where Defendant, a former Police Chief of Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company, has been indicted and charged with computer trespass in violation of Penal Law § 156.10(2), unauthorized use of a computer in violation of PL § 156.05), falsifying business records in the first degree in…
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Article 14 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law
The defendant is charged with violating the Vehicle and Traffic Law, which in part states that any person operating a motor vehicle, who knowing that damage has been caused to personal property of another, due to the culpability of the person operating such motor vehicle leaves the place where the…
Sandoval ruling
An appeal was made by the defendant from a judgment of the Criminal County Court convicting him of grand larceny in the third degree (four counts) and scheme to defraud in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and sentencing him to consecutive indeterminate terms of 1 to 3 years,…
On November 25, 1974 the defendant was sentenced to concurrent terms
A Queens Criminal Lawyer said that, at about 3:30 A.M. on June 17, 1972, a girl of 15, was brutally knifed in the chest while sleeping in her ground floor bedroom. Before expiring, the girl told her parents (who had rushed to the room in response to her scream) that…
This court has long expressed its intolerance of general search warrants
A Suffolk Marijuana Possession Lawyer said that, the People appeal from an order of the County Court, Suffolk County, which, after a hearing, granted the defendant’s motion to suppress certain physical evidence seized upon the execution of a search warrant, including eight bags of plant material. The order should be…
Maryland Court of Appeals
The defendant was indicted for Attempted Murder in the First Degree and other crimes. The defendant filed an omnibus motion requesting, inter alia, dismissal of the charge of Attempted Murder in the First Degree. A Queens County Criminal lawyer said that the defendant was granted leave to reargue. Defendant claims…
People v. Durham
People v. Durham Court Discusses Whether the Trial Judge Improperly Allowed Unauthorised Information Prohibited by the Sandoval Hearing The defendant was convicted of driving while intoxication, DWI, and appealed on the ground that he did not have a fair trial. The defendant’s contention was based on the ruling of the…
Code of Judicial Conduct
In an unprecedented action in the County of Suffolk, the prosecutor, on behalf of the People of the State of New York, requests an order disqualifying or recusing this court from presiding as the assigned judge of two separate indictments charging the defendant with the commission of two counts of…
Family Court Act § 311.4(3)
Respondent’s background was obtained by means of questions put to TS who has supervised respondent’s foster care with New York Foundling since 2007. Criminal Respondent was referred to the Girls Education & Mentoring Services, a social services program offering counseling to young women who have been sexually exploited sometime in…
DPCA developed the form to remedy perceived shortcomings in the statute
This matter is before the Court for sentencing under Leandra’s Law New York’s newest anti-DWI measure wherein the defendant pled guilty to DWI driving while intoxicated pursuant to Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1192 (3). One month after the DWI death of 11-year-old Leandra Rosado in New York City, the…