The petitioner, an inmate at Coxsackie Correctional Facility, has commenced the instant CPLR Article 78 proceeding to review a determination by respondent New York State Board of Parole denying his request for discretionary release. Respondent opposes the petition seeking its dismissal. Currently, the petitioner is serving an indeterminate prison sentence…
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Defendant Denied Right to Cross Examine Witness and Appeals
In January of 1996, a man offered a woman $1,500.00 to use her apartment for a drug deal. She accepted and the man and another man moved into the woman’s apartment to wait for a large amount of heroin to be delivered from San Francisco by another man. While in…
New York Appellate Court Decides if Defendant is Receiving Double Punishment for Robbery and Attempted Assault
Daniel D was indicted along with five other individuals for the murder in the first degree of George Simon. All of the defendants were acquitted of the murder charge but Mr. D was ultimately convicted of assault with intent to kill. For this conviction, he received a sentence of 5…
New York Court of Appeals Finds Defendant Charged with Murder Didn’t Receive Fair Trial
On January 17, 2003, a man was found guilty by the County Court of Chenango County of murdering his wife. His motion to have this decision vacated, or set aside, was rejected without a hearing. Let’s review the facts of the case. According to reports, a car accident occurred at…
David M was charged with 1st degree robbery and put on trial.
A source tells of a case in Albany County where the judges came up with different decisions because of their differing perspectives on how double jeopardy applied to a situation. David M was charged with 1st degree criminal robbery and put on trial. According to our expert, 1st degree robbery…
Robbery cases can seriously harm a lot of innocent people
Robbery cases can seriously harm a lot of innocent people to the point of even having their lives be put at risk. And this is all because of utmost selfishness and the wicked ways that some people resolve to doing even if it puts them into the most desperate and…