On 21 August 2006, petitioner applied for a premises residence handgun license. In the application, petitioner conceded that he had been arrested, and attached a copy of his plea agreement and a notarized explanation regarding the circumstances underlying the arrest. On 20 March 2007, respondent as the Statutorily Designated Handgun…
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Respondent Violates Order for Protection
A New York Criminal Lawyer said that on 15 March 199, petitioner spouse filed a supplemental petition has been, a Family Offense Proceeding, alleging that respondent failed to obey the modified order of protection issued by the court dated 15 November 1993; that respondent on 8 March 1994, upon release…
Court Discusses Jurisdiction of IDV Courts
The Court transferred into the Integrated Domestic Violence (IDV) Part a case alleging criminal contempt of court filed against a woman and a family offense case that the woman filed against the complaining witness. On joint application of the Court and the accused, the Court also transferred a subsequently filed…
Defedant Contends Police Did Not have Probable Cause for Stop
Two uniformed police officers were checking out an illegally parked car near the corner of 39th Street and 9th Avenue at 3am on June 15, 2005. One of them happened to look up and saw a man running. He was coming from the vicinity of 8th Avenue. When the police…
Defendant Charged with Weapon Found in Car
On October 22, 1982 at around 2:00 am, car was parked in an alley near an apartment building. A man opened the car and sat in the car and slept in there. The man was able to get into the car because the car was owned by a friend of…
Defendant Claims they are a victim of Illegal Search and Seizure
In criminal trials, issues involving the admissibility of evidence often comes down to a fine matter of law. The authority of an officer to stop a vehicle or a person is restricted by articulable reasonable suspicion. A New York Drug Crime Lawyer said that is a suspicion that can be…
City Sues Street Gang
The Queens Plaza area is located at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge. A New York DWI Lawyer said it is one of the major entranceways to Queens and indeed to the rest of Long Island. In addition to being a conduit for the vehicular traffic to and from Manhattan…
Court Decides Whether to Evict Domestic Violence Offender from Subsidized Housing
A woman from New York filed an action against the Chairman of the Housing Authority that owns and operates her apartment. The woman challenge certain policies, proceedings and practices of the Housing Authority and to compel them to establish specific criteria and definitions of non-desirability and clear guidelines and criteria…
Court Decides Child Custody in Light of Domestic Violence Allegations
On 4 September 1987, a man and a woman (or mother/petitioner and father) got married. Thereafter, on or about 24 July 1996, the couple divorced. A decree of divorce was entered and incorporated the terms of a separation agreement which provided that the parties were to share joint legal custody…
Court Determines Child Custody Where Domestic Violence Present
The couple was married in December 1989 and had always resided in New York during their marriage and their only child was born in July 1990. The parties resided in the City of Glens Falls. The husband was employed by an architectural firm and the wife remained at home to…