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.
...A New York man was taken into custody on March 9 after his 4-year-old daughter allegedly took cocaine to her school. Authorities stated that, when the man's Geneva home was searched, firearms, drugs and cash were discovered.
...On March 6, a 72-year-old New York man who was accused of owning a large cockfighting ring was sentenced to just under one year in prison. According to the attorney general, the man's farm spanned 92 acres and supplied roosters that had been trained to...
A man in New York has been arrested for purchasing over $200,000 worth of jewelry using cloned credit cards. The 33-year-old Troy man was detained after buying a pair of diamond earrings and a Rolex watch from a store on Feb. 11. According to Ontario...
When people in New York are brought up on assault and battery charges, their lawyers could potentially use self-defense, protection of another person or property, or consent as the defenses in their cases. Assault and battery occurs when one individual threatens to and then carries...
Generally speaking, an offer of an Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal ("ACD") to resolve criminal charges is usually a very attractive plea bargain offer to a criminal defendant. After all, the most important goal for any criminal defendant should be the dismissal of all criminal...
According to city investigators, 50 building inspectors, including the chief construction inspectors for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, were indicted and charged with accepting bribes in exchange for reportedly ignoring safety problems at building sites around the city. The charges came on Feb. 10...