Andrew Keshner

March 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An NYPD officer did not provide the information she needed to charge a man with being in a Bronx park after hours, a judge decided. "Contrary to the people's assertions, the fact that the sun had set does not necessarily mean that it was dusk. There is a period of time where the sun has set, but it is not yet dusk, namely civil twilight," Judge Armando Montano said.

By Andrew Keshner

8 minute read

March 25, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Justice Richard Velasquez said the Fire Department's pension fund and its internal medical board "continuously failed" to heed laws giving 9/11 first responders a presumption of causation to their Ground Zero work.

By Andrew Keshner

11 minute read

March 24, 2016 | New York Law Journal

In a statement Wednesday, Brooklyn D.A. Kenneth Thompson said the rookie police officer's firing of a single bullet—which ricocheted through a pitch-black public housing stairwell into Akai Gurley's heart—was a reckless action that "caused an innocent man to lose his life," but there was no evidence Liang meant to kill or injure Gurley.

By Andrew Keshner/Associated Press

5 minute read

March 24, 2016 | New York Law Journal

In her first high-profile wrongful conviction decision, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark consented to the release of a man her office said did not get a fair murder trial decades earlier.

By Andrew Keshner

12 minute read

March 23, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office will appeal a judge's decision to vacate a death sentence for Ronell Wilson, who was convicted of murdering two police officers. Judge Nicholas Garaufis said Wilson was ineligible for capital punishment because he was intellectually disabled in the eyes of the law.

By Andrew Keshner

3 minute read

March 23, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Martha Brosius, who was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for her crimes, which included stealing from a man deemed mentally incapable, has been disbarred by a Manhattan appeals court.

By Andrew Keshner

3 minute read

March 22, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Eastern District Judge Brian Cogan urged prosecutors to explain their position in contempt proceedings linked to the once-secret criminal history of an informant, and he chastised the government for appearing to "take lightly the risk of harm created by failing to protect" the man.

By Andrew Keshner

19 minute read

March 21, 2016 | New York Law Journal

John Gleeson, who advocated judicial discretion in sentencing often during his more than two decades as an Eastern District judge, used one of his final opinions to call on the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend its guidelines so federal judges could consider reductions for defendants who successfully participate in programs offered in problem-solving courts.

By Andrew Keshner

5 minute read

March 21, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Communications between a public relations firm and a municipality fighting allegations of discrimination towards Hasidic Jews are not privileged, Southern District Judge Katherine Forrest ruled Friday, saying the town took a "sweeping and rather brazen" position.

By Andrew Keshner

11 minute read

March 18, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Long Island attorney David Bodian admitted Wednesday to raiding a trust fund in order to pay for lavish personal expenses.

By Andrew Keshner

2 minute read