Andrew Keshner

February 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A lawyer has denied accusations he was driving drunk and on drugs in a fatal September crash that killed a 21-year-old mechanic.

By Associated Press/Andrew Keshner

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February 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Family Court Judge Theresa Whelan and District Court Judge Karen Kerr have been selected to oversee Suffolk County's Family Court and its District Court.

By Andrew Keshner

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February 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Officer Peter Liang was convicted Thursday of second-degree manslaughter in the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed man in a darkened public housing stairwell.

By Andrew Keshner

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February 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Justice Danny Chun rejected the defense claim that the prosecution's closing argument impermissibly alleged Officer Peter Liang intentionally shot at Akai Gurley.

By Andrew Keshner

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February 10, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A prominent media law firm has been appointed to represent a man trying to unseal a confidential bank monitor report on HSBC Bank's compliance in a money laundering deferred prosecution.

By Andrew Keshner

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February 10, 2016 | New York Law Journal

In their final appeal to the jury Tuesday, Brooklyn prosecutors clashed with the defense on whether rookie police officer Peter Liang's single fatal shot in a dark public housing stairwell veered into criminal recklessness.

By Andrew Keshner

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February 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A police officer on trial for recklessly disregarding his training and risk of death in an East New York public housing patrol that left an innocent man dead testified emotionally Monday but said officers could pull out their guns when feeling unsafe.

By Andrew Keshner

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February 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Justice W. Gerard Asher rejected some of suspended matrimonial attorney Dominic Barbara's defenses in an action to establish a bank's mortgage rights to his multimillion-dollar Long Island house.

By Andrew Keshner

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February 05, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A New York City police officer who accused fellow officers of beating him has been awarded more than $15 million in damages by a federal court jury.

By Andrew Keshner/Associated Press

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February 04, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A portion of an internal police report on a fatal domestic violence incident which has been a source of litigation for years must be turned over to an attorney arguing in a separate matter that Nassau County police are deliberately indifferent to intimate partner violence.

By Andrew Keshner

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