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It has been reported that this years Memorial Day holiday weekend DWI arrest have increased from the previous years. A total of 130 arrests were made in Nassau County and Suffolk County combined. Nassau County arrested 73 people between 9pm Friday and 9am Tuesday morning. In Suffolk County there were 57 arrests between 4pm Friday and 7am Tuesday said a New York Criminal Lawyer. Last years reports indicate there were 106 arrests made and more than half of these arrests resulted in conviction especially when the suspects were not represented.

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An intoxicated New York City police officer was killed after causing a deadly car crash that also injured four others, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. He had attended a surprise party for a fellow officer before the incident, and the guests at the event had seen the cop drinking. Two of the injured stated that they were just not aware of how intoxicated the driver was.

The 35 year old officer was driving his vehicle when he left the party just after 6AM on May 16th, reported a New York Criminal Lawyer. Another New York City police officer was one of the victims, as he had been riding in the car. The other cop, only 25, had also consumed alcohol at the party and had a blood alcohol level of .21. Both officers had been riding in the front seat of the car.

The driver had offered to drive the four victims home, despite his blood alcohol level of .16, which is twice the state ís legal driving limit of 0.08. All four victims were women, two of whom currently remain in critical condition. Two sisters were also seriously injured as a result of the automobile accident. The sisterís mother was angry that the police officersí reckless actions had landed her daughters in the hospital and caused their critical injuries such as a shattered pelvis, a spinal cord injury, and fractured legs.

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An eighty-one year old man has been convicted of misdemeaner animal abuse and will be spending 30 Days in jail for the killing of a squirrel, says a New York Criminal Lawyer. Last February, the man was reported for abuse using a pellet gun to shoot the animal at his home. He has been arrested 12 times in the past for misdemeanor violations including criminal contempt, for violating orders of the court, but most of the arrests have been due to wildlife violations.

Upon his release from his 30 day jail sentence, the man will face 15 other charges all related to his use of a BB gun. The octagenarian, who lives in East Northport, has had many disputes in the past involving his neighbors.

He is an 81 year old Army Veteran who served in the army air corps for 3 years after World War II. Following his military career, he ran an aerial photography business. He spent many years flying out of the Fleshing Airport and the Bayport Aerodrome.

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A 25 year old cab driver noticed two men were following him as he drove on Franklin Street in Hempstead. The cabbie stopped his cab and pursued the two men bearing a knife. The two men also left their car with bats. It has been reported that the two men took cash from the cab driver along with a cell phone after they beat him with the bats. The cabbie was able to stab one of the perpetrators. The cabbie was arrested and treated at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow. Police found the other two men who were later identified. One of the men was charged with robbery and possession of a dangerous weapon. He was also arrested and held at the hospital in a guarded location. According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, the cabbie was charged with assault and possession of a dangerous weapon.

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Just weeks after a January earthquake killed more than 300,000 people, devastating the country of Haiti, officials there will soon be faced with yet another task; caring for and housing immigrants with criminal backgrounds who have been deported from the United States, claims an officer . According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, the decision to no longer suspend deportation of Haitian immigrants has some people up in arms, saying that there is no way the country of Haiti can provide adequate housing and care for those deported at this time due to the disastrous effects of the earthquake upon its population.

More than one hundred detainees in Florida had their deportations placed on hold for six months after the earthquake, because of the extreme damage, mass homelessness and disease that has spreading through Haiti since the devastating quake hit. Now, reports the story, the United States is no longer willing to allow these detainees to remain here in the states, and is rounding them up and preparing to send them back, despite unsanitary living conditions and a precarious future in the country of their birth.

Cleanup has been excruciatingly slow since the earthquake, explains the official. Homelessness is rampant, crime has escalated and disease is overtaking the population. Thousands of people are being wiped out by Cholera, including a massive prison outbreak that has left more than two dozen prisoners dead. Despite these questionable conditions, a spokesperson for the ICE has maintained that the US government is doing what they can to insure that the deported prisoners will be returning under safe and humane conditions.

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John Mark Karr, who became semi-famous in 2006 for associating himself with the death of JonBenet Ramsey, is living here in the United States as a woman, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. Karr falsely confessed to the murder of Benet Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado but it was later proven that he did not perform the murder nor did he help commit the crime. JonBenet Ramsey was a 6 year old beauty queen found murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado

in 2006. The crime has never been solved and Karr was ruled out as the perpetrator.

Karr was a Thai teacher previously and he is now living in Washington state as a woman. There is no evidence that Karr has had any surgical procedures to officially become a woman. Karr is using the alias Alexis Valoran Reich and recent photographs of him show a much more feminine appearance then in the past. The pictures suggest to New York Criminal Lawyers that he is attempting to portray himself as a woman and further evidence to this attempt is that he is

The role of emerging technology and how the government, in particular those branches of the government charged with public protection and order, deal with it is one of the great challenges of the twenty first century, said a New York Criminal Lawyer the other day.

In particular, the issue of how to treat Electronic Mail, or E-Mail, has been a thorny issue for the courts to deal with. On the one side are privacy advocates, who believe that the Fourth Amendment protections against warrant less searches of one’s person, house, papers, and effects should include E-Mail. They believe it is a logical extension that the founding fathers would have supported had E-Mail been in existence at the formation of the Republic.. On the other side of the issue are those arguing that individuals have no expectation of privacy to their E-Mails and that as a result they are not afforded protection form warrantless searches. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case just recently and has agreed with the former: E-Mail searches require a warrant prior to being conducted. The decision is considered a victory for privacy advocates.

The court believed that since E-Mail mimics the form and function of traditional mail that it would be illogical to not extend the protections. The case now sets a precedent to be followed by all courts within the Sixth Circuit. An appeal to the United States Supreme Court is expected and no doubt the nation’s highest court will eventually decide on this issue.

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A New York Criminal Lawyer says that a federal judge in Manhattan rejected a Guantanamo detainee’s request to drop his guilty verdict. The detainee claims that he should be tried as a civilian in the court and that his first trial was not legal or just. The judge ruled he would not drop the earlier guilty verdict and that there was enough evidence to continue with his keeping his charge of conspiracy. The detainee will probably appeal this ruling as well.

Last year, the detainee was convicted on one act of conspiracy to destroy a government building. The New York Criminal Lawyer was informed that the man was convicted of conspiring to blow up the US embassy in East Africa. There were 224 people who were killed in that attack and many more were injured. The attack also killed one dozen Americans.

The detainee was held on the conspiracy charge, but he was exonerated on 280 different counts in the same incident. The attack on the US embassy took place in 1998 and he has been in US custody ever since. He faces life in prison when he sees the judge for the sentencing portion of his trial, which will happen in the next few weeks. The detainee’s lawyer tried to dismiss the guilty charge by saying the verdict was inconsistent with other verdicts in the US since then. The judge dismissed the lawyer’s arguments and held the detainee on the guilty charge.

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