Joel Stashenko

May 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal judge said there is sufficient evidence to sustain the core allegation in Freddie Peacock's claim that he was convicted largely based on a confession that was fabricated by Rochester police investigating the July 1976 rape of a woman who lived in his building.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

May 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A First Department panel dismissed a drunken driving conviction against a man who police said they seized on a Bronx street because they thought he had just been the victim of a crime, and while they were in close proximity, saw his watery, bloodshot eyes and smelled the odor of alcohol.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

May 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Although New York was in the middle of the pack of the latest ratings of the National Center for Access to Justice, its score for attorney availability was among the highest in the country, and the state scored better than most in services for self-represented individuals.

By Joel Stashenko and Karen Sloan

8 minute read

May 12, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Advocates of legislation that would authorize people with terminal illnesses to request life-ending drugs from a physician say they have reconciled their differences and introduced the same measure in the state Assembly and Senate.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

May 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Reimbursements from a state-maintained fund to compensate the clients of dishonest attorneys reached a record $12.3 million in 2015, or more than double the amount paid out in 2014, the state Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection said.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

May 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state Court of Appeals declined Tuesday to order retroactive compensation or damages to state judges who did not get higher salaries in the 2000s because pay raise bills stalled in Albany due to politicking over unrelated legislation.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

May 10, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A man who acknowledged having unprotected sex with dozens of women in the late 1990s despite knowing he was infected with the HIV virus remains a danger to the public, an appeals court said as it upheld his civil confinement.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

May 10, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Rensselaer County's district attorney has backed away from challenging state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's authority to investigate the fatal shooting of a civilian by a Troy police sergeant.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

May 10, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Randolph Treece, who was a Northern District magistrate judge from 2001 until his retirement in September 2015, has joined E. Stewart Jones Hacker Murphy of Albany.

By Joel Stashenko

1 minute read

May 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A federal appeals court has thrown out a $150,001 verdict won by a former inmate who claimed he was denied food at Attica state prison, finding that jurors were erroneously allowed to consider a report by an inmate advocacy group that criticized conditions at the prison.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read