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New York Law Journal | Analysis
By James Mitchell and Kelly Lin | December 8, 2023
The crime-fraud exception often presents a quandary to attorney-client privilege. Is your client's question to you—and your advice—protected by that privilege, or must you disclose it to a grand jury should you be served a subpeona seeking information about any conversations you may have had with a client about extradition? If the crime-fraud exception applies, should you have also considered telling your client of that possibility when they first asked you the question and avoiding the issue altogether?
By Avalon Zoppo | December 7, 2023
"To decide whether a state drug offense is a categorical match with the CSA, courts must embark on a needlessly convoluted journey," Judge Richard Sullivan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit wrote.
By Hugo Guzman | December 7, 2023
"Affordable housing is a scarce resource in this city, and it is intended for eligible New Yorkers in need," New York City Department of Investigation Commissioner Jocelyn Strauber said.
By Cedra Mayfield | December 7, 2023
"I've seen lawyers do a lot of things to try to get off a trial calendar, but I don't think I've ever seen a lawyer try to get a judge arrested or placed in jail to get off a trial," said defense counsel S. Lester Tate III.
By Brian Lee | December 6, 2023
Leaders of the New York court system have embraced a study group's recommendation that judges expand the use of remote proceedings as a means of doing business into the future, the Law Journal has learned.
By Cedra Mayfield | December 6, 2023
"It seems pretty clear to me that it would be a violation of the double jeopardy clause to allow [the state] to argue something that they lost at the first trial," Donald F. Samuel told the Daily Report on Wednesday.
By Marc Levy | The Associated Press | December 6, 2023
It was Scott Perry's efforts to elevate Jeffrey Clark to Trump's acting attorney general—and likely reverse the Department of Justice's stance that it had found no evidence of widespread voting fraud that would change the election—that have made him a figure of interest to federal prosecutors. Clark and Trump are two of 19 defendants indicted in the Georgia 2020 election interference probe.
By The Associated Press | December 6, 2023
Norman Beckwood, 29, of Memphis, entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Mississippi's Northern District said in a news release. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock then sentenced Beckwood to 62 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release. He also was ordered to pay $10,620,452 in restitution to the Small Business Administration, the office said.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press | December 6, 2023
Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels told reporters Tuesday that the sum represents $1 million for every year Leonard Cure spent imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction. He was killed just three years after Florida authorities set him free.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | December 6, 2023
The lawsuit filed Monday says the officer's body camera video shows the tow truck driver straddling Johnny Hollman Sr. during the tussle Aug. 10, "appearing to sit with his full body weight" on Hollman's head and neck.
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