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…
The defendant’s written a Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) application to set aside one count of the jury trial verdict which convicted him of criminal mischief was granted by the County Court, over the written and oral opposition, on the record in open court. The written decision expounds in greater detail…
In this Criminal case, a jury has found the defendant guilty of assault, second degree, with intent to rape. He is now before me for sentence and in connection therewith the District Attorney has filed a prior offense information which alleges that the defendant is now a second felony offender…
The criminal defendant is adjudicated to be a Level Three Sex Offender after a Sex Offender Registration Act hearing held on 5 August 2008. The defendant was charged under this indictment with Rape in the First Degree stemming from an incident that occurred on 18 February 1976. He was convicted…
A Kings Criminal Lawyer said that, this is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered April 22, 2009, in Kings County, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, criminal contempt in the first degree, and criminal contempt in the second degree,…