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Proposal: D.A.s Must First be Lawyers for 7 Years

Georgia lawmakers are considering a constitutional amendment that would increase the amount of experience a lawyer must have before being eligible to be a district attorney.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

AG's 'Operation Angry Birds' Rescues Fighting Cocks

By | February 11, 2014
More than 3,000 birds were rescued in a three-county cockfighting takedown in New York this weekend that resulted in nine felony arrests, according to the state attorney general's office.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Disbarred Lawyer Is Indicted in $1 Million Escrow Theft

Robert Fontanelli, arrested after a traffic stop last week, is accused of draining the funds from the escrow account in which he deposited the proceeds of the sale of a mixed residential and commercial property in Crown Heights.
2 minute read

The Recorder

People v. Bautista

By | February 11, 2014
4 minute read

The Recorder

United States v. Popov

By | February 11, 2014
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

NYPD Can Withhold Records from Non-Profit, Panel Rules

A divided First Department panel has let the NYPD off the hook for $49,000 in legal fees, finding that it did not wrongfully withhold from the Exoneration Initiative the addresses and telephone numbers of two people who witnessed a murder that the nonprofit is investigating.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Grapples With Ex-Judge's Admission of Views on Race

Prosecutors and defense attorneys sparred Monday on how much weight should be given to the recently confessed views on race of a former judge who convicted a white man for murdering a black man 14 years ago.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

When a Judge Second-Guesses His Ruling (Long After)

In his Ethics and Criminal Practice column, Joel Cohen of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, writes: We seem to think that once a judge puts pen to paper and finally decides a case, the decision is final in his own mind—there is no reverie; no compunction; no troubling self-doubt. But it isn't always like that, as shown by now-retired Justice Frank Barbaro's coming forward to seek to undo what he considers an injustice over a non-jury murder conviction he handed down in 1999.
14 minute read

New York Law Journal

People v. Carter

Person Holding Sole Title May Be Convicted Of Criminal Mischief for Damage to Own Home
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

People v. Morson

Indictment Dismissed for Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Re-submission to New Grand Jury
2 minute read

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