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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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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 30, 2021

New York City Police are searching for this man who attacked a 65-year-old Asian woman in broad daylight in Midtown on the sidewalk on West 43rd Street near Ninth Avenue. The New York Post reported that the suspect yelled anti-Asian statements while he beat the woman, including, “F—k you, you don’t belong here.”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the New York plan for subsidizing marijuana businesses with a preference for those with prior criminal records — or their family members. Legislators yielded to every political temptation in piling on dubious tax burdens and class-based preferences on this new market.

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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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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

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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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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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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The Crime Report

JUNE 11, 2021

The Armed Career Criminal Act targets repeat offenders responsible for most violent crimes, Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the plurality, singling out those with a history of knowing the harm they were inflicting when committing crimes. The New York Times reports that the case concerned Charles Borden Jr.,

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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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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2021

The paper’s author, Jacob Schuman , an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, argues that the system of supervised release has become a “drug-control network focused on public safety” rather than rehabilitation. See Also: New York Parole System Called ‘Reincarceration Machine’.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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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

MAY 25, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the first 4 months of Rowan Wilson's tenure as New York's Chief Judge and saw a 45% increase in total appeals calendared over the corresponding period the previous year. In Part 2, we saw that the number of criminal appeals calendared had actually doubled.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

JULY 10, 2024

As I've explained numerous times on New York Court Watcher [See e.g., NYCOA: Criminal Appeals (Part 3)--Voting & Decisional Patterns (Mar. Dissents, both opinions and votes, are particularly revealing. 13, 2019)] and elsewhere [See e.g., Great Dissents: 'Matters of High Principle' at the Court of Appeals, 94 N.Y. at 23 (Nov./Dec.

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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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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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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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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

In some examples cited in the paper, a Virginia defendant in Virginia charged with transporting marijuana pleaded guilty to trafficking a different type of drug altogether; a New York defendant charged with animal cruelty pleaded guilty to trespassing even though no trespassing was involved.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney and Director of Business and Community Relations at MyCase , web-based law practice management software. If not, what steps can you take today to build resiliency into your firm’s processes so that your firm will succeed no matter what the future holds?

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Nicole Black is a Rochester, New York attorney and Director of Business and Community Relations at MyCase , web-based law practice management software. If not, what steps can you take today to build resiliency into your firm’s processes so that your firm will succeed no matter what the future holds?

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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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Attorney’s Offices for the Western District of Washington, the District of South Dakota, the Middle District of Florida, the Southern District of Florida, the Southern District of Illinois, and the Northern District of New York. Once again, I am very thankful for the effort of all of these agencies in bringing this case.

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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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