By Cedra Mayfield | February 7, 2023
From its list of 113 nominees, the Judicial Nominating Commission will compile a smaller group of candidates to interview for the intermediate appellate vacancy.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Barry Kamins | February 6, 2023
As a result of a class action lawsuit brought by the Legal Aid Society, the New York City Police Department has agreed to a major reform of its street encounter procedures.
By Colleen Murphy | February 2, 2023
"We reiterate yet again the state acknowledges it cannot explain why the dispatcher included a racial description of the robber when none had been provided by the victim," Judge Ronald Susswein wrote. "Absent such an explanation, the state has no way to measure the level of constitutional misconduct."
By Cedra Mayfield | February 2, 2023
"Sometimes phrases like 'bad faith' are thrown around as a pejorative for the effect," said prevailing Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney John A. "Tripp" Fitzner III. "They actually mean something specific and should not be used that way."
By Colleen Murphy | February 1, 2023
"As to the issue that is implicated here, namely, whether a sleeping-juror issue is preserved when the parties advise the trial court that a juror is sleeping but request no action or remedy from the court, we conclude that Forgette did not preserve this issue and, on the facts before us, waived it, thus precluding appellate review," Justice Richard L. Gabriel wrote.
By ALM Staff | February 1, 2023
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decisions editors.
By Andrew Denney | January 27, 2023
Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice has screened hundreds of actual innocence cases and has won the release 12 people who had done time for serious crimes they insist they didn't commit, which includes three full exonerations.
By Dan Roe | January 25, 2023
After a federal district court judge ruled in favor of Crosley Green, the Eleventh Circuit ruled prosecutors could withhold exculpatory evidence they believe to be inadmissible, a violation of the Brady Rule, according to his pro bono litigators.
By Cedra Mayfield | January 25, 2023
"Appellants are entitled to file only a single reply brief," Georgia Court of Appeals administrators tweeted. "Parties may file a motion for additional words or for an extension of time to file a brief."
By Allison Dunn | January 24, 2023
"I would never want to secure a conviction with even a remote possibility of racial bias against a defendant," Chief Deputy Prosecutor Dan LeBeau said in a statement provided to Law.com. "There was no intentional actions on my part yet I understand the court's ruling."
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