The Honorable John M. Leventhal is retired from his most recent judicial position as Associate Justice of the State Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, a position to which he was appointed in 2008. Judge Leventhal will be focusing on appellate law, civil...
Appellate Review of Credibility Determinations at Suppression Hearings In People v. Nettles, an appellate court has, for the first time, reversed a credibility determination made at a Darden hearing. While it is axiomatic that appellate courts will give great deference to credibility determinations made at a suppression...
ABK client Daniel Greenspan, who was convicted of murder in Suffolk County in 2017, has had his conviction reversed by the Appellate Division in Brooklyn earlier today! During the trial, in which Mr Greenspan was represented by Arthur Aidala and Michael Jaccarino, the Appellate Court held...
New Legislation Implementing Police Reform in New York In the wake of an historic wave of protests, sparked by the death of George Floyd, New York became one of the first states to enact an expansive package of police reform bills. In addition, the New York...
#ABKLaw IN THE NEWS: Entertainment Weekly "Attorney Alan Dershowitz demands apology for The Good Fight's Jeffrey Epstein episode In a letter sent to CBS, Dershowitz's attorney Imran H. Ansari, Esq., of Aidala Bertuna & Kamins PC, outlines why Dershowitz believes the episode "is tortious and constitutes both defamation per se...
ABKLAW In The News: 10 YEARS AGO TODAY - ACQUITTAL - William Rapetti NOT GUILTY in crane collapse Crane man cleared The master rigger blamed by prosecutors for causing the horrific East Side crane collapse that killed six of his friends and a tourist from Florida was...
LANDMARK DECISION ESTABLISHING LGBTQ RIGHTS UNDER TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County extending the employment protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to sexual orientation, thus...
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: Employers Could Face Audits and Criminal Liability After Receiving Federal Assistance During COVID The CARES Act, passed during the recent COVID-19 health crisis, made available over $2 trillion in economic stimulus, aid loans and relief to individuals, state...
Bail, Discovery and Speedy Trial: The New Reforms In the midst of an historic pandemic, the Legislature enacted amendments to sweeping legislation it had enacted last year: limitations on monetary bail; expansion of discovery in criminal cases; and the enhancement of the right to a statutory...
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation Personal Injury Commercial Litigation Michael DiBenedetto specializes in Civil Law including Personal Injury, Commercial Litigation, Transactional matters, and Divorce and Family Law. Michael was a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Jodi Lee Alper, J.S.C., a General Equity presiding judge in Essex County. During his clerkship,...