One day, a DWI roadblock, indicated by signs, was set up by a uniformed police unit. All vehicles proceeding through the roadblock were stopped. Each driver was then approached and asked how they felt. The vehicle operated by the defendant was driven into this initial area in a normal manner…
In this drug crime case, defendant brought on a motion for re-sentence as a first, rather than as a second, felony offender with respect to a judgment of a Court, convicting him, on his own plea of guilty to the crime of Attempted Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, and…
In this drug crime, defendant was arrested and charged with the following crimes and violations to wit: (1) criminal possession of a controlled substance in violation of Penal Law Sec. 220.09, a Class “C” felony; (2) criminal use of drug paraphernalia, second degree in violation of Penal Law Sec. 220.50,…
At approximately 14 minutes past midnight on March 6, 1999, Rochester Police Officer KB was on routine patrol on Lyell Avenue when he first observed a known male prostitute enter defendant’s red pickup truck which was parked in a nearby parking lot. When the vehicle exited the parking lot, Officer…
Plaintiff and his daughter live in the town of Huntington, Suffolk County. Plaintiff’s daughter, born on October 1964, is afflicted with a condition diagnosed as nerve deafness. She has been attending school at a certain school for the deaf in Nassau County at the age of three. Her right to…
The Facts of the Case: A building containing offices and retail establishments was broken into and burglarized. Moments after the silent alarm system went off, the appellants, along with a third person, were found inside including various tools that were apparently used in the burglary. Consequently, appellants were charged and…
The accused woman appeals from a judgment convicting her, after a nonjury trial, of two counts of driving while intoxicated (DWI) as a misdemeanor and refusal to submit to a field screening test. She was arraigned in Sylvan Beach Village Court on two counts of DWI as a misdemeanor. A…
Plaintiff brought this criminal action to recover damages for injuries he claims to have suffered as a result of being knocked down as he attempted to board a bus operated by the defendant which was traveling on Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island. At the time of jury selection, the plaintiff…
A man entered a home in Dade County, Florida. He did this in the middle of the night without the knowledge and consent of the two people who lived in the premises, a brother and a sister. The man ransacked the house and took away with him a color television…
Sometime between the days of 6 November 2002 to 6 March 2003, defendant allegedly sold, on nine separate occasions, quantities of cocaine and marijuana to an undercover police officer at various locations in Kings County, New York. On 29 May 2003, the police arrested defendant in Kings County, and recovered…