JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2021

The investigative work of the FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force, which comprises special agents from various entities such as the FBI, NYPD, and New York State Police, resulted in these charges.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

I am less opposed to the bail as I am to the fact that New York officials cannot maintain a prison with a minimal level of security. ” Rikers has long been in the control of the inmates, particularly criminal gangs. New York officials have let this go on for decades with no accountability.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the threats faced by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the pending criminal assault allegation in the Albany Police Department. If proven, the allegation of the former staff members of being groped by Cuomo could meet the standard for criminal assault. The women could bring direct criminal complaint against Cuomo.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 20, 2024

Sahara Dula, 24, is a New England College criminal justice graduate who wants to specialize in “crisis communication. ” If so, she has a bit to learn after intentionally hitting a police officer with her Lexus and then declaring “F— these cops, it’s a lesson to him.”

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

APRIL 21, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, we saw that the number of cases calendared for a hearing at the Court of Appeals in the first 4 months since Rowan Wilson became New York's Chief Judge increased significantly. In Part 2, we saw that the number of criminal cases calendared for oral arguments for the same 4 months had actually doubled.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a press conference, US Attorney General Merrick Garland stated that regional justice departments in the Eastern District of New York and the District of New Jersey arrested two and charged 13 people allegedly acting on behalf of the PRC. Unaware these documents were fake, the defendants then sent them to the PRC company.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A New York woman, Sarah Espinosa, 22, has been arrested for a rather odd offense after crashing her car while under the influence. That is unfortunately not particularly uncommon but she crashed her Prius into a firehouse while wearing a giant python around her neck.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2021

New York has been hit recently by a number of chilling crimes. However, I was struck by the charges brought against Parker whose mugshot could be seen as a reaction to the redundancy of criminal charges today. One is the discovery of Nicole Flanagan, who was discovered inside a 55-gallon drum.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The new national incident-based reporting system (NIBRS) has required agencies to change how they report crime. This year, the report does not include data from New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Phoenix.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The link between Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and criminal behavior is rarely acknowledged as a mitigating factor in U.S. jurisprudence , says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper. . According to the New York Law School study, racial minorities are more likely to have FAS. Race and FAS.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2022

If Roske makes such a defense, he will be subject to the federal standard for the affirmative defense, requiring a showing that “at the time of the commission of the acts constituting the offense, the defendant, as a result of a severe mental disease or defect, was unable to appreciate the nature and quality or the wrongfulness of his acts.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Thursday moved to vacate 188 misdemeanor convictions tied to eight New York City Police Department officers. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. This request represents part of an ongoing review by the DA Office’s Post-Conviction Justice Unit of more than 1,100 cases connected to a list of 22 former NYPD officers.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We previously looked at the increase in cases being heard at New York's highest court since Rowan Wilson was elevated to Chief Judge this past April and, more specifically, since he began producing the Court's calendars starting with this September's. We saw that the increase has already been half-again what it was previously.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 28, 2021

An arrest in the death of NYPD officer Anastasio Tsakos could raise some challenging evidentiary questions in the trial of Jessica Beauvais, 32. Before Beauvais ran over Tsakos, she posted a podcast that not only showed her drinking but signing off with “F**K Police.”

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Patently O

AUGUST 11, 2022

The new hire then starts work the following summer. We’re not hiring in IP this year, but are looking to hire several candidates folks — primarily focusing on the areas of Criminal Law/Procedure; Evidence; Constitutional Law courses (including First Amendment); Contracts; Dispute Resolution; and Veterans benefits (clinic).

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

New York nonprofit The Legal Aid Society (LAS) Thursday reported that data from the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) shows the successes of New York’s 2019 bail reform law. Any claim to the contrary doesn’t square with reality, and is merely baseless fear mongering.”

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ALPS

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It referenced a new legal ethics opinion issued by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. Like New York, most states have a rule similar to this one: Rule 1.6(c) Introduction to an Ethical Problem Most Attorneys Don’t Know About. In April of 2022, a headline caught our attention.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

JULY 7, 2022

We've previously looked at the reduction in the caseload at New York's highest court. Now we'll focus specifically on criminal appeals.Credit: Daniel caseThe magnificent Court of Appeals courtroom.This has been a source of considerable consternation for the state's criminal defense bar.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The US House Ethics Committee published Thursday a report that found “substantial evidence” that Representative George Santos (R-NY) violated federal criminal law.

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2022

A New York judge Monday exonerated a sixth defendant in the Central Park jogger case. Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam, known as the Central Park Five, were also wrongfully convicted and were exonerated in 2002 using DNA evidence. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 6, 2022

It referenced a new legal ethics opinion issued by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. Like New York, most states have a rule that is similar to this one: Rule 1.6(c) In April 2022, a headline caught our attention. They almost certainly will be misused. Back to Ethics. Our advice?

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LLRX

JULY 30, 2022

Four highlights from this week : Cyber insurance price hike hits local governments hard; New York Counties to Get Free Services to Better Defend Against Cyberattacks; Why emergency calls sometimes can’t get through; and A Rogues’ Gallery of Robocallers.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

demonstrate Beijing is using the National Security Law to target dissenting voices, not tackle public security.”. The Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit non-governmental organization based out of New York, agreed with the official assessments.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Najibullah entered the plea in a Manhattan federal court after the prosecutor unveiled the new charges last week. Haji had previously been accused of kidnapping New York Times Journalist David Rohde and Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin, as well as one other, at gunpoint in an unrelated 2008 incident.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Vullo involves a lawsuit in which the NRA alleges that Maria Vullo, then the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, violated its First Amendment rights by threatening its business partners to try to encourage them to disassociate from the NRA. New York and 335-7 LLC v. City of New York, NY.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Back to the New York Court.) Let's return to that June 14 set of decisions by New York's highest Court. Dissents, Disappointments, and Open Questions (Reviewing the Supreme Court's past term and developments--yes, and enjoying the Saratoga meet--monopolized my time for a while. And when they don't?

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Michael McCoy, 54, was left blind in one eye and, according to the New York Post, McKnight tried to convince him that he had shot himself while he was sleeping. The shooting took place five years after McCoy was cleared in the shooting of her former husband in the groin.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The New York Times reported that the FBI searched two locations in New York in search of the “stolen” diary that went missing days before the 2020 presidential election. However, it fits the definition of journalism, in my view, and that makes the raids troubling.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2021

He was finally apprehended in Suffolk County, Long Island, according the New York Post. The New York Post reports that Newson is a reputed member of the Edgemere Crew gang. After the traffic stop, Newson is accused of breaking into a home in Queens and threatening a 66-year-old woman by pretending he had a gun.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These figures underscore what is well known by attorneys who practice before New York's highest court, as well as by those who have worked there and by those who study it. We previously looked at the stark disparity among the Court of Appeals Judges in the number of CLA's (Crimnal Leave Applications) they granted last year. Getting.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

MARCH 27, 2019

In the last post, we looked at two dissents that protested majority decisions at New York's highest court that overturned convictions because of errors having nothing to do with guilt or innocence, and where there was no suggestion that the alleged error by the trial judge had caused any prejudice to the defendant. See Part 4b.)

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Guidelines rationale is that “[o]rganizations can act only through agents and, under federal criminal law, generally are vicariously liable for offenses committed by their agents.” In light of the above, the government generally resists the notion that an organization is a victim of its own employees.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 23, 2024

Rademacher took a closer look at the BGH’s landmark decision from 1992, which deemed the concept of punitive damages intolerable in Germany mainly because its function to punish and deter doesn’t fall in the scope of German private law’s concept of strict compensation; punishment and deterrence are entirely reserved for criminal law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 2, 2021

” and Morrison responded “I was trying to see – I was being called by New York going, maybe these are the people you need to follow, but I don’t know, I was trying to –” The officer then interrupts and asks directly “You were trying to what?” “New York told you to follow a vehicle?”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 7, 2023

In a case reminiscent of the two New York lawyers convicted of firebombing a police vehicle, a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was arrested for possible domestic terrorism in targeting a police training center in Atlanta.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The law further states “The duty to notify a person or agency under this section is met if a person notifies or attempts to provide such notice by telephone or any other means as soon as reasonably possible.”. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced. The charge was later dismissed.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 5, 2022

We previously discussed the cases of attorneys Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, who were accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into an occupied police vehicle in New York. Mattis graduated from New York University School of Law in 2016 and received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.

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