In this Criminal action, defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, 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 identification testimony. A Queens County…
The defendants were indicted for the sex crimes of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, sex abuse in the first degree and assault in the second degree. Although the alleged sex crimes occurred on April 4, 1975, the trial did not commence until October 21, 1975.…
A Nassau Sex Crime Lawyer said that, by way of habeas corpus, in an unusually literate Pro se application, the criminal defendant attacks his detention, pending trial, in the Nassau County Jail. The papers give a broad overview of, and an insight into, conditions in the Nassau County Jail, the…
A Queens Sex Crimes Lawyer said that, defendant is a convicted sex crime offender pursuant to Correction Law § 168-a having pled guilty on April 6, 1994, to one count of Attempted Rape in the First Degree, a lesser-included crime of Count I of the Indictment charging Rape in the…
A man is charged with a criminal contempt in the second degree and harassment in the second degree for conduct. It is alleged that such conduct was in violation of an order of protection issued by the Supreme Court over the matrimonial action between the man and his wife, the…
This is an action for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and civil rights violations which stems from plaintiff’s arrest in the Village of Lake Placid, Essex County, on 2 November 1995 for rape and sodomy in the first degree. The complainant was a woman that plaintiff had met at a party…
Respondent who is charged with committing acts which, were she an adult, would constitute the crimes of Prostitution, Resisting Arrest, Obstructing Governmental Administration in the Second Degree, and False Personation, has moved pursuant to Family Court Act § 311.4(3) for an order directing the substitution of a petition alleging that…
A Nassau Sex Crimes Lawyer said that, before the Court is an Article 10, child abuse and neglect proceeding brought by the Department of Social Services (hereinafter referred to as “DSS”) on behalf of the children. The Respondent is charged, as a parent substitute, with sexually abusing the child, the…
A Nassau Sex Crimes Lawyer said that, before the Court is an Article 10, child abuse and neglect proceeding brought by the Department of Social Services (hereinafter referred to as “DSS”) on behalf of the children. The Respondent is charged, as a parent substitute, with sexually abusing the child, the…
This is a proceeding wherein the criminal court in this appeal asks for the first time to consider the admissibility of expert testimony proffered on the issue of the reliability of a confession. While in a proper case expert testimony on the phenomenon of false confessions should be admitted, the…