Jeff Storey

April 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Tucked into the new state budget are reforms that court officials have championed for years to reduce two causes of wrongful convictions—false confessions and mistaken identifications.

By Jeff Storey

14 minute read

March 24, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A new report says despite improvements in the past 10 years, the task of providing effective interpreting services remains a "daunting" one: last year, the courts used more than 300 court-employed and 700 per diem interpreters in more than 90,000 cases to interpret for 115 different languages.

By Jeff Storey

11 minute read

March 23, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The Court of Appeals on Thursday set the stage for a second trial of a Washington County man for killing his mother, stepfather and stepbrother after it found lacked jurisdiction to consider the mixed question of law and fact presented by whether Matthew Slocum's right to counsel had been violated during a police interrogation.

By Jeff Storey

4 minute read

February 24, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Tucked within the judiciary's $15 million capital budget request for 2017-18 is what the Office of Court Administration deemed a fair price for a former town justice's company, Service Education Inc., which makes The CourtRoom Program, already used by about 95 percent of the state's local courts.

By Jeff Storey

7 minute read

February 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York state courts have been "performing better as a whole" during the first year of Chief Judge Janet DiFiore's Excellence Initiative, according to a report issued Wednesday.

By Jeff Storey

12 minute read

January 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The goal of the New York City Bar Association's Small Law Firm Center is to provide the kinds of access to services and research tools that attorneys working in big law firms routinely enjoy and to foster networking opportunities among small-firm attorneys. The director, Shan Thever, spoke with the Law Journal on the center's services and goals and the life of a solo or small-firm practitioner.

By Jeff Storey

16 minute read

January 03, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Charges against a man who allegedly stockpiled guns, grenades and marijuana in his parents' Long Island home have been thrown out by an appellate court that concluded the police had no right to enter the house without a warrant.

By Jeff Storey

9 minute read

December 30, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A Queens prosecutor in a weapons possession trial strayed far beyond the bounds of the evidence by offering a raft of irrelevant and inflammatory comments in his summation, an appellate panel has ruled.

By Jeff Storey

3 minute read

December 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Acting Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus, who has overseen the courts that handle Manhattan felonies for eight years, is being replaced due to "philosophical differences" with the Office of Court Administration, a spokesman for the agency confirmed Thursday.

By Jeff Storey

6 minute read

December 22, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The number of first-year law students nationwide and at New York's 15 law schools increased this fall—albeit slightly—for the first time since 2010, when word of a bleak entry-level job market and skyrocketing tuition turned off many potential applicants.

By Karen Sloan and Jeff Storey

11 minute read