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New Jersey Law Journal

No Conflict Found in Dismissal of Christie Misconduct Complaint

A citizen's complaint accusing Gov. Chris Christie of official misconduct in connection with the Bridgegate scandal appears to have run out of gas after motions to refer the case to a grand jury or appoint a special prosecutor were dismissed.
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New York Law Journal

As Trump Touts Guantánamo, U.S. Prosecutors in New York Notch Wins in Terror Trials

Admitted al-Qaida operative Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Harun is just the type of "bad dude" that Donald Trump has said should be locked up at Guantánamo Bay. Maybe in the future, that's where people like him will once again end up. But under an Obama-era policy that favored trial in civilian courts for anti-American fighters captured overseas, Harun was sent instead to Brooklyn, where an Eastern District jury convicted him on Thursday of killing two U.S. servicemen on a battlefield in Afghanistan nearly 14 years ago.
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New York Law Journal

Legal Aid Celebrates Public Defense Day

By | March 17, 2017
The Legal Aid Society celebrated Public Defense Day and the anniversary of 'Gideon v. Wainwright'—the landmark 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing right to counsel for criminal defendants—in each borough on Thursday.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Torres-Kuilan, PICS Case No. 17-0365 (Pa. Super. Feb. 27, 2017) Ott, J. (8 pages).

By | March 17, 2017
Trial court properly allowed seven year old witness in child molestation case to testify via closed circuit television because 42 Pa.C.S. §5985(a.1)(2) did not prevent the judge from hearing the evidence of the witness coordinator who accompanied the child to court and the witness coordinator's testimony corroborated the judge's own observations that the child was upset and refused to enter the courtroom. Affirmed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Savage, PICS Case No. 17-0364 (Pa. Super. March 7, 2017) Dubow, J. (13 pages).

By | March 17, 2017
A CYS investigation report was inadmissible under the business records exception to the hearsay rule because the contents of the report originated from a witness outside of CYS. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Watson, PICS Case No. 17-0366 (Pa. Super. March 8, 2017) Lazarus, J. (16 pages).

By | March 17, 2017
Trial court erred in sentencing when it mistakenly believed it was statutorily required to impose a sentence of intermediate punishment for the mandatory maximum term required for a second DUI offense, where a trial court was not bound to the mandatory maximum when sentencing a defendant to CIP. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded for resentencing.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Chambers, PICS Case No. 17-0362 (Pa. Super. March 7, 2017) Solano, J. (20 pages).

By | March 17, 2017
Mace was an instrument of crime and a deadly weapon where it was used to render the victim defenseless during an assault in which the defendant repeatedly punched and kicked and verbally threatened the life of the victim. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

In the Interest of N.B., PICS Case No. 17-0374 (Pa. Super. March 8, 2017) Strassburger, J. (12 pages).

By | March 17, 2017
Juvenile court erred in suppressing appellee's statement to police on Miranda grounds because any coercion, if it existed, was by appellee's mother and not the police. Reversed.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Conte, PICS Case No. 17-0345 (C.P. Monroe, Jan. 18, 2017) Higgins, J. (8 pages).

By | March 17, 2017
Defendant in sexual assault case was not entitled to a taint hearing where the alleged victim was 29 years old and there was no evidence in the record that she was incompetent to testify.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Rudinski, PICS Case No. 17-0256 (C.P. Lycoming Feb. 9, 2017) Butts, P. J. (10 pages).

By | March 17, 2017
Defendant filed a post-sentence motion arguing discovery violations and seeking a new trial based on after discovered evidence in his trial for having child pornography on his computer but the court found no discovery violation because it was incumbent on defense counsel to seek the expert's full report prior to trial and defendant offered no evidence to support the allegations of wrongdoing by the commonwealth's expert witness. Motion denied.
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