New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Bennett L. Gershman | December 4, 2020
With a pandemic raging, and tens of thousands of persons dying each week, these executions are largely being ignored.
By Jane Wester | December 3, 2020
Vitol general counsel Ernest Kohnke and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partners Jeffrey Knox and Joshua Levine signed the deferred prosecution agreement, under which Vitol agreed to improve its compliance programs.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Lee A. Spielmann | December 2, 2020
With the prosecution of accused Nazi criminals having essentially ended, evaluating the significance of these proceedings becomes appropriate. A comparison between the Ryan and Demjanjuk extradition decisions is particularly illuminating.
By Ryan Tarinelli | November 30, 2020
Four persons serving on grand juries in New York tested positive in the span of one week in late November. The cases, as outlined on the court system's website, are the first infections among jurors in months.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Barry Kamins | November 30, 2020
Courts have been divided on whether pursuit for a misdemeanor justifies a warrantless entry. That issue will now be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. In this edition of his Criminal Law and Procedure column, Barry Kamins examines the jurisprudence leading up to the decision.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | C. Ryan Barber | November 25, 2020
The pardon followed a pattern for Trump, who broadly has used the clemency power of the presidency to help allies and associates.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Mitchell Krapes | November 24, 2020
A discussion of New York state's sentencing provisions that govern teenagers who have been convicted of homicide. The article reviews the different sentencing provisions based on the age of the defendant at the time of the homicide and uses the Tessa Majors murder as a real life example to show the age-based demarcations in sentencing.
By Jane Wester | November 20, 2020
"People throw around terms like 'icon' a lot, but he really was an icon," said David Patton, executive director and attorney-in-chief of the Federal Defenders of New York.
By Jane Wester | November 18, 2020
Attorney General William Barr and his counterpart in Mexico, Alejandro Gertz Manero, said Mexican officials are now investigating former national defense secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda and, "in the interests of demonstrating our united front against all forms of criminality," the U.S. Department of Justice had agreed to drop the charges.
By Michael A. Mora | November 16, 2020
Now, the prosecutor will drop all charges against Deandre Baker, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.
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