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Testimony About Penis Size Found Prejudicial in Sexual Assault Case

A New Jersey appeals court on Wednesday reversed a rape conviction because testimony about whether the defendant had an unusually large penis exceeded its proper scope.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Community Caretaking Doesn't Justify Opening Car Door To Check on Driver

A police officer's entry into a parked car, allegedly to verify the driver's health status, can't be justified by the community-caretaking doctrine, a New Jersey appeals court rules.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Judge Grants Skakel Permission To Travel

Michael Skakel, who was released from prison last month after he was granted a new trial in the 1975 slaying of a neighbor, has been granted permission to travel to see his son in New York and other relatives in Oregon.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Justice Nahmias Questions Court's Precedent that Sets Aside Mutually Exclusive Criminal Verdicts

Georgia Supreme Court Justice David Nahmias once again is questioning the court's prior case law. This time, he expressed misgivings about precedents that set out when criminal verdicts are so logically inconsistent as to be void.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Fake Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Victimizing Immigrants

A 72-year-old Rockland man who, according to the state attorney general, not only passed himself off as a lawyer but gave lousy legal advice, has pleaded guilty to felony charges in exchange for a sentence of 3½ to 7 years in state prison.
2 minute read

The Recorder

United States v. Anderson

By | December 19, 2013
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Find Police Threats Invalidated Consent to Search

Police officers' statements that they could obtain a search warrant even though they knew it was unlikely has led a federal judge to suppress a gun seized from a defendant's home.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Wachtel Partner Wins New Trial for Former Caddie at his L.I. Golf Club

Anthony Oddone, who was convicted of manslaughter stemming from a barroom brawl five years ago, won a chance to clear his name last week when the New York Court of Appeals overturned his conviction and ordered a new trial, thanks to Marc Wolinsky, his pro bono counsel from Wachtell,
3 minute read

Law.com

Criminal Justice Reform Proposal Would Allow Ex-Cons to Sue if Their Sealed Records are Released

Gov. Nathan Deal's criminal justice reform council will present a slew of policy changes to the state Legislature next month aimed at making it easier for rehabilitated ex-convicts to obtain jobs and housing.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Bloomberg Swears In His Last Group of City Judges

The judges were nominated through a merit-based selection process designed to ensure fairness and discourage political favoritism.
5 minute read

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