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The Rutgers freshman who jumped off a bridge apparently due to video voyeurism had faced the problem previously, New York Criminal Lawyers have learned. He had already complained to a dorm advisor and two other officials that his roommate spied upon his gay tryst and streamed it live with a webcam.

The deceased 18-year-old student wrote about his difficulties with his roommate on a gay message board. He had tried multiple times to have some action taken because of the voyeurism. There was no hint of suicide in his posts, but he was clearly upset and no longer wished stay with his roommate.

The 18-year-old young man said in the messages that he went to the dorm adviser to get a new room once he learned about the first streaming incident. His roommate had invited followers on Twitter to watch a second sexual encounter. “He seemed to take it seriously,” the student wrote in a post, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. Fifteen hours later, he plunged into the Hudson River from the George Washington Bridge.

A Brooklyn bartender died in a stabbing when he confronted an ex-con over a fight between their dogs, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The fight between the dogs occurred outside a country-and-Western bar on Vanderbuilt Ave. in Prospect Heights.

The victim had his miniature black-and-brown pinscher tied to a fence near a salt-and-pepper poodle. The poodle was owned by a 36-year-old patron of the bar, an ex-convict. The leashes of the dogs twisted together and the dogs began to fight. The ex-con, who had already served seven years in prison for manslaughter, came out with his wife to check on the dog. The 41-year-old bartender also came out to see what was happening.

A witness reported to a New York Criminal Lawyer that the argument was initially very strange. “They were arguing about whose dog can beat whose dog,” the witness said. “Dude! You pushed my wife’s hand!” the witness said he heard the ex-con yell. “No, I didn’t,” the bartender replied, according to the witness. It was only a few minutes later that the bartender was stabbed twice. He died later at Kings County Hospital.

Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards was caught driving under the influence when he was pulled over by police on the Westside. He had double the legal limit of alcohol in his system, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The 27-year-old pro football player was arrested early in the morning and charged with DWI, after being pulled over because his Range Rover had overly-tinted windows. Police told a New York Criminal Lawyer they smelled alcohol and gave Edwards a Breathalyzer test. He registered 0.16, which is twice the state’s legal limit of 0.08. He also failed a sobriety test at the scene.

“I had a couple of drinks,” he told the police, according to a report by New York Criminal Lawyers. There were four other passengers, two of them also football players. None of them were charged with any crimes. Edwards was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and operating a vehicle while impaired.

Two men and a woman breaking into a Manhattan gym locker to steal credit cards, a man trying to rob a bank with only a note, a gunman robbing a store in Queens – what do these three have in common? Yes, they’re all criminals, but these weren’t the same people in each instance.

The common thread – they all wore Yankees caps. It’s a strange new trend New York Criminal Lawyers have noted: dozens of men and women who commit crimes against their fellow New Yorkers do so while wearing Yankees caps or clothing.

More than 100 people who have been suspects or persons of interest in connection with serious crimes in New York City have been caught wearing some sort of Yankees paraphernalia, since 2000, New York Criminal Lawyers learned from police sources. No other sports team has nearly as much popularity among the criminal set.

A federal judge barred prosecutors on Wednesday from using a witness in the first trial of a former detainee of Guantanamo Bay, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The decision has sparked further debate in the issue over whether terrorist detainees should be prosecuted in civilian court.

The trial of the alleged terrorist, charged with participating in the 1998 bombings of United States Embassies in East Africa, is seen by many as a test the Obama Administration’s determination to move other detainees to federal court and shut down Guantanamo.

The judge in charge of the case, from the United States District Court in Manhattan, has denied requests from the defense to dismiss the case because the defendant’s right to a speedy trial has been violated and due to accusations of torture.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s internal watchdog has stated that the timing of a fraud lawsuit against Goldman Sachs was “suspicious”. The statement seems to imply SEC agents attempted to distract attention from a report criticizing the SEC for failing to detect an alleged Ponzi scheme, according to New York Criminal Lawyers.

Lawmakers have asked the SEC Inspector General to look into the filing of the SEC suit against Goldman, who settled the case for $550 million. That same day, the SEC released a report from the Inspector General that concluded the agency had missed a number of chances to catch the perpetrator of an alleged $7 billion fraud, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The Inspector General was questioned at a Senate Banking Committee hearing regarding the timing of the Goldman suit. “It would strain credulity to think it was coincidental.” He also said: “I can’t give you a conclusion right now, but it was suspicious.”

The defendant had already been convicted of manslaughter for killing his neighbor by the jury, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

One of the key concepts in the case, included prominently in the jury instructions, was “prudence”. Specifically, they were asked to determine whether the defendant acted in prudence when it came to the victim.

The jury foreperson used his iPhone to access an Encarta and look up the word “prudence”, during a break from deliberations. He then shared this information with the other jurors, sources told New York Criminal Lawyers.

The family of a man who died in a tragic hunting accident in Keene in 2008 is now seeking civil action against the man who killed him, New York Criminal Lawyers have learned.

The widow of the victim and her two daughters are plaintiffs in the suit against the shooter, suing him for wrongful death and negligence, as well as other grounds. The complaint, according to New York Criminal Lawyers, lists all the various ways the shooter showed his negligence when he fired that fatal shot.

He has already been convicted of criminally negligent homicide, several months before the suit was filed, and sentenced to the maximum time in prison – one-and-a-third to four years in prison, in September 2010.

A corrections officer who was brandishing a gun, seems to lead a charmed life. Cops shot at him 20 times and he was only shot in the arm once, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The 35-year-old guard was shot at about 3:45 a.m. in the Bronx after he defied requests to drop his 9mm Glock. Instead, he pointed at the plainclothes officers, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

“There were lots of shots. It sounded like 50,” said a 55-year-old witness. She ducked into an alley with her Yorkie when the guns started to go off.

“The smell of the gunpowder was really heavy,” she told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Witnesses reported a man with a gun was leaving a club and walking down the street, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Federal authorities have arrested the suspect who allegedly killed the daughter of a Concord police chief, according to New York Criminal Lawyers.

The 34-year-old suspect was in Niagara Falls when the U.S. Marshals caught him and brought him in. The arrest was without incident, the police chief of Charlotte-Mecklinburg told a New York Criminal Lawyer. He was driving a stolen Chevrolet Blazer, which was also recovered.

The suspect was found in a house where he used to live, asleep on the couch of a male friend. Eighteen officers came to arrest him, a U.S. Marshal told a New York Criminal Lawyer. State, local, and federal officers were all involved in the suspect’s capture. It is believed he had been in the friend’s house since noon the previous day.