In certain cases, a person who has a weapon may be charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the 4th degree, which is a class A misdemeanor offense in New York. In some cases, possessing a weapon that has been deemed prohibited in the...
man from New York City faces charges including robbery as a hate crime after he was accused of perpetrating a string of robberies on Chinese women. The district attorney said that the man targeted Chinese women because he believed them to be vulnerable, so...
Protests have been growing in Baltimore after a 25-year-old black man, Freddie Gray, died of a spinal cord injury that he sustained after he was taken into custody by several police officers.
...A 45-year-old White Plains woman is facing charges for allegedly posing as a dentist and performing medical procedures on unsuspecting patients. She was arraigned in a New York court on April 16.
...A New York City woman has been charged with multiple criminal violations after it was discovered that she had been married to multiple different men at the same time. The 39-year-old Manhattan resident was scheduled to be arraigned in the Bronx Supreme Court. It is...
New York residents may be interested in learning about a separate court for those charged with driving while intoxicated in Brooklyn. Felony DWI Court was established by the Kings County Supreme Court in late 2010 as part of the Brooklyn Treatment Court. This special court...
Members of the Supreme Court rarely speak out publicly about their views on the sorts of issues that are likely to come before them. So it was notable when Justices Kennedy and Breyer sat before the House appropriations committee recently and talked about the plight...
On March 25, a grand jury indicted a Brooklyn tax preparer on 31 counts of tax fraud. According to reports, the jury found that there was sufficient evidence to show he had been helping clients falsify tax returns from 2008 to 2010. If convicted of...
According to law enforcement authorities in New York, five teenage girls are facing charges for an assault on another girl inside of a McDonald's restaurant in Brooklyn. The incident occurred on March 9 in the Flatbush area....
The first remedial measures from the stop-and-frisk litigation in New York City are beginning to trickle down from the courts to local police precincts.
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