Respondent is the mother of the two subject children. Respondent also has an older daughter, currently a third year student at Princeton University, visits the home on some weekends and during school vacations. In February 2008, respondent was arrested and her children were removed from her care pursuant to Family…
The defendant was charged with harassment based on numerous harassing and threatening telephone calls he allegedly made to his former paramour, with whom he had two children. Specifically, a misdemeanor complaint was filed charging the defendant with harassment and aggravated harassment. By order, the action was transferred from the County…
In April 2006 respondent father filed a motion requesting that this court enter a dispositional order dismissing the neglect petition pursuant to Family Court Act § 1051 (c) or, in the alternative, suspending judgment of the neglect finding, pursuant to Family Court Act § 1053. The Children’s Services, the law…
A man was indicted for robbery in the second degree and grand larceny in the third degree. He was acquitted on the robbery charge, found guilty of the count charging grand larceny in the third degree and sentenced to five years probation and a fine of $100. The criminal charges…
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…
This is a proceeding wherein the petitioner seeks leave pursuant to article 6 of the Civil Rights Law to change her surname to that of her same-sex life partner. Her partner has consented to the application before a notary public. The court’s research does not reveal any published New York…
The defendant doctor was indicted for grand larceny in the second degree and conspiracy in the first degree. A man was also indicted and is a fugitive. The charges arose from an alleged scheme that defrauded the New York State medical aid system of over $500,000. The theory of the…
The complainant allege that a pharmacist, acting both individually and as an agent of a pharmacy, submitted a number of claims for prescription refills for various recipients, which refills had not been authorized by the prescribing physicians. Later, witness appeared before the grand jury, which returned the instant indictment, at…
Originally, defendant was charged by complaint dated 4 November 2006 with assault in the third degree in accordance with Penal Law § 120.00 [1], a class A misdemeanor; menacing in the third degree in accordance with Penal Law § 120.15, a class B misdemeanor; criminal mischief in the fourth degree…
In this criminal case, appellant, who was 15 years old at the time of the offense, was charged, along with three other youths, with acts which, if committed by an adult, would constitute robbery in the second and third degrees, attempted robbery in the second degree, assault in the second…