In this Criminal action, DWI charges were commenced by filing simplified traffic informations and supporting depositions rather than misdemeanor informations. Under our law as it applies in this case, simplified information is “a written accusation by a police officer filed with a local criminal court, which charges a person with…
In this Criminal case, this suppression motion places in question the propriety of a lineup identification procedure that involves a suspect with a distinctive facial deformity: a glass eye. This motion also challenges the propriety of conducting a lineup in the absence of counsel, prior to the start of adversarial…
A New York Marijuana Possession Lawyer said that, criminal defendant makes this motion to suppress as evidence the marijuana seized by the police which is the basis of the indictment here. The record discloses that about 3:30 A.M. on May 12, 1966 a Detective of the Narcotic Squad received a…
This is an Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court convicting him of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon his guilty plea, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial of defendant’s motion, to suppress physical evidence and an…
This is a proceeding wherein the defendants have been convicted of multiple counts of rape and sodomy in the first degree. The charges arose after a New Jersey woman alleged criminal defendants forced her into a car outside a Manhattan dance club, took her to a Brooklyn apartment and there…
In this Criminal case, the defendant was arrested in September 1978 and charged in one accusatory instrument, a felony complaint, with two crimes, i. e., Violation of Sections 265.02 (a felony) and 240.50 (a misdemeanor). A Queens County Criminal attorney said that a preliminary hearing was held by this Court…
People v. Tolentino Court Discusses Suppression of Evidence and Probable Cause The criminal defendant requested that the finding from the search of his automobile be suppressed. The defendant was arrested after an informant told the police that the defendant and his accomplice would be at a train station with heroin.…
In this case, two offenders moved to dismiss the misdemeanor charges of criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of marijuana on speedy trial grounds. They were arraigned on the said complaints and after two days, the complainant allegedly obtained a copy of the ballistics report. The report states…
The matter at bar is a civil forfeiture proceeding wherein the complainant woman who is claiming authority also happens to be a Suffolk County Attorney seeking the forfeiture of a 1967 Chevrolet owned by the defendant man. The defendant man was arrested on June 23, 2006 for driving while intoxicated…
A Queens Criminal Lawyer said that, the defendants, through their respective counsels, move for an order dismissing this indictment for lack of prosecution. These defendants, together with two other defendants, were indicted for the crimes of robbery in the first degree; grand larceny, first degree; grand larceny, second degree, three…