Joel Stashenko

November 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Fourth Department unanimously held that defendant Renee Bailey could persuasively argue that the 2 1/2-year-old girl may have suffered a fatal fall from an 18-inch high chair, as Bailey contended, and was not a victim of shaken baby impact syndrome, as prosecutors maintained.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

November 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The Appellate Division, Third Department, will hear oral arguments on Friday in the same courthouse where it made its home from 1916 to 1972.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

November 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Improper pressure from a trial judge led a defendant to plead guilty to manslaughter, a unanimous appeals court has found in ordering the plea vacated.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

November 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Republican John Faso, a former leader in the state Legislature, revived his political career on Election Day with a victory over Zephyr Teachout in a Hudson Valley congressional district.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

November 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

With election of her long-time law clerk Caroline Wojtaszek as Niagara County district attorney, county Judge Sara Sheldon will not be allowed to preside over any criminal matters for the next year.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

November 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A judge used a "fair and reasonable interpretation" of the evidence in finding that the state was not civilly liable for the shooting of a man by a state trooper, a state appeals court found.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

November 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The New York State Bar Association has started a national search for a new executive director as David Watson, who has led the bar since June 2014, prepares to leave at the end of the year for the Michigan Institute of Continuing Education.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

November 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The New York State Trial Lawyers Association said it believes state legislators deserve a pay raise.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

November 08, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division deployed more than 500 staffers to polling places in 28 states—including Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut—on Tuesday to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws.

By Michael Booth and Joel Stashenko

12 minute read

November 07, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The revocation of a harness trainer's license for allegedly improperly medicating his horses was overturned on Nov. 3 by a Third Department panel who said the sanction was based on insufficient evidence.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read