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A mother of two pre-teenaged children and a victim of abuse of the children’s father, a crack and alcohol abuser with a criminal history, filed a case of illegal dismissal from work for alleged discrimination against victims of domestic violence.

The mother of two was hired as a probationary worker by the New York City Department of Correction. The mother was fired by the Department because, according to the Department, their sick leave policy requires probationary employees to provide their home address and telephone numbers and require the employees to stay in their residence, or the place of confinement, at all times during the period of illness except when receiving medical treatment. Because of this policy, the mother was forced to give to the Department her husband’s address. When the Department conducted an investigation on the sick leave, the mother was nowhere to be found in the address she gave to her employer.

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On August 15, 1995, James Webb was paroled from the Orleans correctional Facility after completing only part of his sentence. When he was released he was provided the standard release bag, blue jeans, and white athletic shoes. Mr. Webb advised later that at the time of his release, he had facial hair in the form of a beard.

Five women were attacked between August 17th 1995 and December 4th 1995 in Brooklyn, New York. Four of the women were raped. Three were forced to perform oral sex. One of the girls was penetrated anally. One woman escaped before any sexual violation could occur. Police believed that all five of the attacks were executed by the same person because the person used similar language at each of the five attacks. The physical description given by each of the victims also was consistent. It described the suspected rapist as a clean shaven dark-skinned black male with a gap in his front teeth. The subject was described as being in his late thirties to early forties wearing blue jeans and white athletic shoes. In the last attack the suspect stole the victim’s white shoe laces. One of the victims was only sixteen.

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There may be situations that people may find a bit funny because of the circumstances involved. Nevertheless the seriousness of a crime as well as the threat that has already imposed to the victim is no laughing matter. A crime committed with the use of force, threat and coercion is considered grave when the crime has been completed. Take this case as a perfect example of such crime.

Sahib Singh, according to a Robbery Lawyer, robbed the complainant at gun point with the help of his accomplice. This was the charge against both of them, robbery in the first degree. However, Singh told the jury during the trial that it could not be robbery in the first degree because the gun was not loaded in the first place. That is why he and his lawyer contested to robbery in the second degree.

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A family court in New York issued an order of protection against a father after finding that the father committed two separate offenses of harassment. The order of protection prohibited the father from committing any acts of assault, stalking, harassment, aggravated harassment, menacing, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct, intimidation, criminal mischief, threats, or any criminal offense, and from using any corporal punishment against his four minor children. The order of protection also directed the father to enroll in and attend a 26-week domestic violence program.

According to sources, the father is known to have a violent temper and is known to be a habitual drunkard. One night, the father came home drunk and started yelling and beating his four minor children. The night turned violent when the father stuck the face of his wife. As a result of that incident, the wife filed a complaint of domestic violence in a family court and asked for an order of protection to direct her husband to stay away from her and their minor children.

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We know that police officers are here stop crime. What happens though when a crime is done to them? A source tells of an interesting case in which a man steals a revolver from a police officer.

On April 3, 1975, David Levinson was found guilty by the Orange County County Court of robbery in the first degree, assault in the second degree and grand larceny in the third degree. Levinson appealed to the Court of Appeals for a review of the sentence. Let’s go into the details of what happened.

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The cases of robbery, whether petty or serious, usually involve the presence of some accomplice. Many innocent people are brought into such trouble of being accused of a crime without them even knowing that what they have done or their mere presence in the crime scene already depicts them as an accomplice to the crime to be judged fairly in court. This is what can be studied in the case of John Williams and Donald Mendoza as researched by an expert New York robbery lawyer. Their case involved also the use of possession of harmful weapon.

According to the New York grand larceny lawyer who made his own findings from this case, the defendant did not object at all to the final ruling that he was convicted of robbery. But the defense was consistent as to lessen the degree of conviction that was rendered. They tried to point out that the trial court made a mistake in charging them in separate cases instead of consolidating everything to be considered as one huge crime. The court was also accused of not responding right away to the possibility of such a mistake so that they can easily revise their verdict.

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Isaac Diggins is an inmate of the New York Correctional Department. Mr. Diggins is serving a felony sentence for attempted murder. His crime was of a particularly serious nature. Mr. Diggins was convicted of handcuffing a man to the inside of a car, robbing him of all of his valuables and then shooting him eight times in the stomach and back. His victim survived the attack, but is paralyzed from the waist down.

While incarcerated, Mr. Diggins applied to participate in an industrial training program in which he would be granted temporary release from the institution to attend the training classes. On April 27, 1994, James Recore, the Director of New York Temporary Release Programs denied Mr. Diggins’ application based on the seriousness of his offenses.

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One January night, a 40-year old man, who had been drinking, started a fight with his wife in their home. The wife said her husband called her names and attempted to get her to bed. When she refused, he hit and kicked her in the stomach and ripped off her blouse. The wife yelled for help but her husband turned up the volume of the television. The husband then ripped the phone out of the socket, breaking it, because the wife wanted to call the police. She continued to yell for help while the husband kicked her arms and hit her breast, nose and lips, causing her nose to swell and her lips to bleed. Eventually the building’s superintendent and the police arrived. As a result of the incident, the wife had bruises, had difficulty eating and breathing, and took Tylenol for her pain. Two orders of protection were issued by a criminal court.

A similar incident happed in April. That was when the wife filed a complaint against the husband charging him with the crimes of criminal contempt, harassment, assault, menacing, criminal mischief, and aggravation. The husband was indicted. He sought for its dismissal claiming that the evidence was not legally sufficient to establish the offenses as charged.

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There’s nothing sadder than a mother maltreating her own children. This case is about a mother who inspite of having four children already still didn’t have the maternal instinct to care for her kids. She has two kids from her first partner and twins with a man reported to have been physically and emotionally abusing her.

It was determined by the court and by the Social Welfare Department that the mother has actually sexually abused her eldest son. The court and the Social Welfare Officers are trying to establish if the mother’s behaviour is a result of domestic violence that was brought about by the father of the twins.

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Because women are suppose to be physically weak there are really some men who take advantage of this and physically abuse their partners, wives, daughters and others. Disturbing reports are very common particularly domestic violence issues wherein the victims are the wives and the children.

On March 7, 1997, the defendant who is the ex-boyfriend of the victim attacked her in front of her apartment. She and her three daughters where coming home from the supermarket when the defendant attacked from behind. The victim then was wheeling the baby carriage when the attack began and her two older daughters who were 7 and 12 years old were frightened by what they saw and began to cry. The victim’s face smashed against the fence and the baby carriage was knocked over. The defendant was very angry because the victim filed a complaint against him previously and put him in jail apparently because of domestic violence.

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