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Supreme Court takes three cases and depublishes three opinions; dissenting votes in four review denials

At the Lectern

The relevant statute provides the possession crime occurs when there’s been a violation of “an express condition of probation,” but a form Judicial Council instruction that was given to the jury says an element of the crime is that “ a court had ordered that the defendant not own or possess a firearm.”

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Could Gov. Cuomo Face Criminal Charges in Sex Harassment Scandal?

The Crime Report

s top deputy, said a prosecutor could bring misdemeanor charges of forcible touching or third-degree sexual abuse — or both onto Cuomo. . In both cases where the testimony according to James is damning, the incidents fall within the two-year statute of limitations that applies to misdemeanors in New York State. . “It