$25,000 Settles Rensselaer, New York Police Assault Case by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Kristopher Remington, 28, received a settlement by the city of Rensselaer, New York of $25,000 after suing it for police brutality. On January 31, 2004, Remington was involved in an altercation outside of a bar, and …
Brooklyn Teen Claims Two NYPD Detectives Raped Her, Demands Justice by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna An 18-year old woman who calls herself Anna Chambers has created a firestorm after she claimed that two Hew York Police Deparment (NYPD) Brooklyn South detectives raped her on September 15, 2017, after a …
67 Counts for Cop Who Had Sex With Underage Girl by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Raul Olmeda, a three-and-a-half year veteran of the NYPD, has been arrested and charged with paying an underage girl for sex and recording the incidents. According to the New York Daily News, the 40-year-old …
Solitary Troubles, Cardozo School of Law, 2018 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law · Yeshiva University Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies February 20, 2018 Faculty Research Paper No. 536 Solitary Troubles Forthcoming 93 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 927 Alexander A. Reinert Professor of Law Cardozo Law School 55 …
New York Court of Appeals: Bail Bondsmen May Not Keep Premium If Defendant Not Released by New York Court of Appeals ruled that bail bondsmen may not retain the premium paid on a criminal defendant’s behalf when bail is denied and the defendant is not released from custody. In 2011, …
$2 Million to Disabled Syracuse Man Tased by Cops by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The city of Syracuse, New York agreed to settle a lawsuit and pay $2 million to Brad Hulett, a disabled man Tased by city cops after he refused to sit down on a bus. Video …
Second Circuit Vacates 60-Month Sentence in Model Guidelines Sentencing Decision by This is a model guidelines sentencing decision filled with nuggets of pure gold in which the district judge (Katherine Forrest of the S.D.N.Y.) was sharply rebuked for imposing an above-guidelines sentence in an illegal reentry case that was three …
Report - the Most Problematic Local Correction Facilities of NY State THE WORST OFFENDERS REPORT: THE MOST PROBLEMATIC LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES OF NEW YORK STATE February 2018 Thomas A. Beilein Chairman Thomas J. Loughren Commissioner Allen Riley Commissioner 80 South Swan Street, 12th Floor, Albany, New York 12210 │ 518-485-2346 …
FOIL Exemption Applies to Civil and Criminal Law Enforcement by David Reutter by David Reutters A New York appellate court held that the New York State Education Department correctly redacted or exempted public records compiled for auditing special education costs because they were compiled for civil law enforcement purposes. The …
$25 Million Verdict for Shooting by NY Cop by David Reutter by David Reutter In 2015, a New York jury awarded $25.2 million in a lawsuit alleging a New York police officer’s excessive use of force in a false arrest. An officer using excessive force inflicted a gunshot wound that caused paraplegia. …
Less is More in New York: An Examination of the Impact of State Parole Violations on Prison and Jail Populations, Columbia University Justice Lab, 2018 Shaping Justice for the Future Research Brief Less is More in New York: An Examination of the Impact of State Parole Violations on Prison and …
Second Circuit: Arrest for Not Leaving Sidewalk Entitled to Qualified Immunity by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity to police for arresting a man for stopping on the sidewalk to speak with Occupy …
New York Court of Appeals: Criminal Trial Judge Cannot Also Be Sole Appellate Judge by The New York Court of Appeals ruled on October 24, 2017 that the judge who presided over a defendant’s criminal trial cannot also act as the sole judge who presides over that defendant’s appeal as …
District Attorney in New York and Aide Indicted for Covering up Beating by Police Chief by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Residents in Suffolk County, N.Y. concerned about crime in their community did not need to look any further than the activities of their own district attorney, Thomas Spota, 76, …
"It Makes Me Want to Cry" Visiting Rikers Island ‘It Makes Me Want to Cry’: Visiting Rikers Island NYC Jails Action Coalition January 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Section I: The Importance of Visits 1 Section II: Visiting Rikers Island 2 Section III: What Visitors Say About Visiting 3 …
Suffolk County District Attorney and Aide Indicted for Beating and Coverup by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Suffolk County, New York residents concerned about crime in their community apparently did not need to look any further than the activities of their own district attorney, Thomas Spota, 76. He and his …
New York Becomes First State to Require Trial Judges to Remind Prosecutors of Their Brady Obligations During All Criminal Trials by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis New York Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence K. Marks issued a bold (and much needed) new rule on November 7, 2017. Intended to remind prosecutors …
Sentence Vacated Due to Improper Enhancement Under Sentencing Guidelines by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated an improperly enhanced sentence of 46 months for illegal reentry after deportation. In 2009, Roman Bartolo Genao, a national of the Dominican Republic, was …
New York City Quietly Assembling Massive Unregulated DNA Database by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Add overly aggressive collection of DNA samples from often unwitting individuals to the list of questionable police tactics in New York City with which criminal defense attorneys and the general public must now deal. Operating …
Second Circuit Certifies Question of Law in Bail Forfeiture Case to New York Court of Appeals by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On November 15, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit asked the New York Court of Appeals to resolve a question of New York law …
