In a First of Its Kind Alert, Your Phone Became a Police Radio in Search for Subway Shooter by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman Brooklyn subway shooting suspect Frank James was arrested by law enforcement officials on Wednesday after a city-wide manhunt led police to a McDonald’s in Manhattan’s East …
Thompson v. Annucci, NY, Complaint, Censorship, 2022 Case 1:22-cv-02632 Document 1 Filed 03/31/22 Page 1 of 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK HEATHER ANN THOMPSON, PH.D., Plaintiff, v. Case No. ____________________ ANTHONY J. ANNUCCI, as Acting Commissioner, New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision; …
A ‘Lucky’ Exoneration in Syracuse by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Before Alice Sebold wrote her New York Times Bestseller, The Lovely Bones, she published a haunting memoir recounting her rape in 1981 when she was a freshman at Syracuse University. The book, Lucky, details not only the experience but …
SCOTUS Rejects ‘Opening the Door’ Rule to Correct ‘Misleading Impression’ as Exception to Confrontation Clause Allowing Admission of Unconfronted Testimonial Hearsay by Richard Resch by Richard Resch In an 8-1 opinion written by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a trial court’s admission of unconfronted …
NYPD Using Secret Money for Surveillance Tech by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A public-records request uncovered details about the New York Police Department’s use of a secret fund the agency has been using to purchase surveillance tech. Two civil rights groups, the Legal Aid Society and the Surveillance …
News in Brief by Alabama: Techdirt reports that police in Brookside have routinely violated the law in traffic enforcement. By early February 2022, it was clear that the local police department in the small town had been racking up staggering amounts of income in traffic fines, receiving more than $600,000 …
Second Circuit: District Court Required to Explain Rationale for Reducing Sentence to ‘Time Served’ Under First Step Act but Refused to Reduce Supervised Release Portion of Sentence Despite Being Longer Than New Mandatory Minimum by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated …
Galloway v. County of Nassau, NY, Memorandum Decision and Order, False Imprisonment, 2022 Case 2:19-cv-05026-AMD-JMW Document 154 Filed 03/07/22 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 3502 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK --------------------------------------------------------------- X : GALLOWAY, : Plaintiff, : MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER – against – : …
Mental Health Response Teams Proved Effective in New York City by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian No one should fear picking up the phone and asking for help. This is the premise of Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division (known as “B-HEARD”), a recently launched mental health program in …
Jones v. Stanford, NY,Settlement, Social Media Ban, 2022 Case 1:20-cv-01332-RJD-JRC Document 73 Filed 01/24/22 Page 1 of 16 PageID #: 690 Case 1:20-cv-01 332-RJD-JRC Document 72 Filed 01/19/22 Page 1 of 16 PagelD #: 674 UN ITED STATES DISTRICT COU RT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------- ---------- X VERNON …
Second Circuit Announces Defendant Need Only Produce ‘Some Credible’ Evidence for Jury Instruction on Entrapment Defense, Clarifying It’s a Burden of Production, Not Persuasion by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit announced that for purposes of the defense of entrapment, the defendant …
News in Brief by Arizona: The family of a homeless and mentally ill man who died after being restrained by Phoenix cops in 2017 will get $5 million from the city, after a 7-2 city council vote in favor of the payment on November 17, 2021, according to a report …
News in Brief by Arizona: Claims for $300,000 were filed in September 2021 against the city of Chandler, Arizona, in advance of a lawsuit planned by two activists arrested during a protest against police brutality six months earlier. According to a report by the Phoenix New Times, the men, Darien …
Brooklyn DA Releases List of Untrustworthy Cops by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The District Attorney’s Office for Brooklyn, New York, released a list of New York City Police Department officers who cannot testify in court because of prior misconduct. Known as a Brady (or more precisely for New …
Montana Supreme Court: Defendant’s Due Process Rights Violated by Delayed Initial Appearance for Two Years While Jailed in New York on Out-of-State Warrant by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of Montana held that a defendant’s due process rights were violated by the State’s failure to bring …
NYPD Training Deprioritizes First Amendment Education in Policing Protests by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian A recent cache of internal training documents from the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) was released pursuant to a Freedom of Information Law request by The Intercept. The documents pertain to training for “Civil …
Queens DA Tosses 60 Convictions Tied to Lying or Predatory Cops by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Thanks to misconduct that has tainted the testimony of three now-fired New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) cops, the resulting convictions of 60 people will be vacated and expunged after a judge …
City of NY Board of Correction Resolution Nov 2021 BOARD OF CORRECTION CITY OF NEW YORK RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF CORRECTION NOVEMBER 9, 2021 PUBLIC MEETING WHEREAS, on June 9, 2021, pursuant to its authority under Section 626(e) of the New York City Charter (the Charter), the Board approved …
City of NY Dept of Investigation - Report Examing the Use of NYPD's Body Worn Camera Footage, 2021 The City of New York Department of Investigation MARGARET GARNETT COMMISSIONER Release #21-2021 nyc.gov/doi 180 MAIDEN LANE NEW YORK, NY 10038 212-825-5900 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2021 CONTACT: DIANE STRUZZI …
Discipline Recommended for 65 NYPD Cops for Response to BLM Protests by A New York City citizen oversight board recommended discipline on October 18, 2021, for 65 city police officers over their response to Black Lives Matter protests that erupted in the summer of 2020, after the killing of George …
