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Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorney Supports Decriminalization, Launches Effort To Unionize Addicts

Years ago, Bridgeport attorney Sylvester Salcedo visited Frankfurt, Germany, one of many stops on a quest to understand how other countries tackled the war on drugs. He carried with him a crumpled-up piece of paper with an address. When he found the building, known as a consumption center, it looked unassuming: a brick-and-mortar structure with a bed of flowers in the front yard.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Another Botched Execution

There is no more dramatic, horrendous unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment than attempted execution by unproven lethal injection administered by incompetent technicians.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Oklahoma Damage Might Extend to Judicial Independence

Judicial independence was another casualty of this week's debacle over the execution of a convicted murderer in Oklahoma, advocates for fair courts said on Friday.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Juror Combat and Judge Response Held Cause for Conviction Reversal

A New Jersey appeals court on Friday threw out a murder conspiracy conviction found to have been tainted by a physical altercation between jurors and by the "civility code" that the trial judge imposed in response.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Broward Judge Pollack Arrested On DUI Charges

Broward Circuit Judge Gisele Pollack, who recently took leave from the bench, has been open throughout her judicial career about her alcoholism.
2 minute read

The Recorder

Butler v. Long

3 minute read

New York Law Journal

The People v. Santiago

Court Rules 'Not Objecting' to Adjourned Date Does Not Constitute Consent by Defense
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Real Estate Attorney Disbarred for Forgery

Eduard Fridman of Brooklyn, who was convicted of felony securities fraud after admitting he forged assistant attorney general signatures, has been disbarred by a Brooklyn appellate court.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

The People v. McGriff

Vacatur of Judgment for Allegedly Repugnant Verdicts, Ineffective Counsel Assistance Denied
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Fulton Street South Redevelopment Co., L.P. v. James

Tenant Granted Stay of Illegal Use Holdover Action Pending Criminal Court Proceeding
2 minute read

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