This is a proceeding wherein the defendants have been convicted of multiple counts of rape and sodomy in the first degree. The charges arose after a New Jersey woman alleged criminal defendants forced her into a car outside a Manhattan dance club, took her to a Brooklyn apartment and there…
A woman moves to vacate her plea of guilty to disorderly conduct, the judgment of conviction and sentence rendered on her. She asserts that her prior convictions are directly related to her arrests for prostitution offenses, and that because she is a victim of human trafficking. At trial, the woman…
A New York Police Department (NYPD) undercover detective posing as a participant in an Internet chat room was contacted by another chat room participant known by the alias website. The alias website engaged in several exchanges with the detective, stating that he wanted to engage in sexual acts with underage…
A man has been released from prison after serving two consecutive sentences of 3 1/3 to 10 years following his conviction for rape and robbery. At the age of fifteen, he was convicted of being one of a large group of youths who committed a series of violent assaults, including…
This case involving child sexual abuse committed by an adolescent raises issues of the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to resolve by guilty plea charges involving a continuous offense spanning defendant’s infancy and adulthood, charges underlying a juvenile delinquency finding, and charges for which defendant may be prosecuted as an adult. A…
The Court conducted a SORA risk assessment hearing in this criminal case. Defendant was convicted by plea of guilty in July of 2009 of one count of possession of child pornography under federal law for which he received a sentence of two years imprisonment and five years of supervised release.…
This is a proceeding wherein the defendant, MW, moves, pursuant to CPL § 410.90(1), for an order granting early termination of his ten-year sentence of probation, on the ground that he is rehabilitated. On 10 May 2012, the court held a hearing wherein Rabbi EZ testified on defendant’s behalf, as…
This is a proceeding wherein the State of New York moves to establish probable cause to believe that K.A. is a “sex offender requiring civil management” pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law (“MHL”) Article 10, §10.06(k). K.A. opposes the motion. Mental Hygiene Law Article 10 provides that after a case review…
Defendant, in February of 1995, in the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, entered pleas of guilty to sodomy in the second degree and sexual abuse in the first degree. The initial charges arose when defendant, during the summer of 1992, lured two young boys into his home for the purpose of…
A New York Sex Crimes Lawyer said that, by indictment filed on February 6, 2007, first defendant was charged with rape in the second degree, endangering the welfare of a child, and unlawfully dealing with a child in the first degree (two counts) for providing alcohol to underage children and…