A man applied to the license division of the police department for a premises pistol permit. As required by the application, the man answered numerous questions pertaining to his qualification. The questions include as to whether he had ever been arrested and was an order of protection ever issued against…
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Defendant Claims Car Seized Unlawfully
In matters of law it is important to have an attorney. Most people who do not have a law degree are unfamiliar with all of the limitations that are placed in reference to legal actions. In New York, the state can seize any motor vehicle that is involved in the…
Court Discusses Role of Counsel at Grand Jury Proceeding
A man indicted for drug crimes such as cocaine possession with intent to sell, denied that he had sold cocaine, but testified to his crack possession of three vials for his own use. A police officer testified that he observed the accused man receive money from an unidentified woman and…
Defendant Contends Police Did Not Have Reasonable Suspicion for Search
A New York Drug Possession Lawyer said an accused man appealed from a summary judgment of the Supreme Court. He was convicted for violating criminal law through committing drug crimes. The accused man was sentenced for his alleged criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, crack possession…
Court Discusses Jurisiction on Domestic Violence Cases
Defendant was charged with, inter alia, harassment in the second degree based on numerous harassing and threatening telephone calls he allegedly made to his former paramour, with whom he had two children. On 18 January 2007, a misdemeanor complaint was filed charging the defendant with, inter alia, aggravated harassment in…
Domestivc Violence Costs Correction Officer her Job
A woman filed a petition to terminate the decision of the commissioner of the department of correction. The decision is to terminate her employment as a probationary correction officer and directing that she be reinstated with back-pay and benefits. After the trial on the issue, the court finds that the…
Domestic Violence Leads to Murder Case for Defendant
A couple married in 1982. The husband was a surgical resident while the woman stayed home. Their marriage was marked by frequent fights and quarrels. Both of them argued and threatened each other. A New York Sex Crimes Lawyer said that one year after they were married, the wife called…
Defendant Claims Forum Shopping in Domestic Violence Case
A man and a woman, never been married, have a 12 year old child. There have been 6 petitions previously filed between the parents, all in Rensselaer County Family Court (in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2 in 2011). Two were withdrawn, three were settled and one is pending. The…
Defendant Sold Drugs to Undercover Officer
A man appealed from a decision of the Supreme Court from convicting him drug possession and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree upon a jury decision, and imposing a sentence. A revised decision of the same court revoked a sentence of probation previously imposed by the…
Defendant Objects to Prior Convictions Being Brought in as Evidence
A New York Gun Crime Lawyer said a man was charged with robbery for having forcibly stolen money from the complainant’s store while wielding a knife. The complainant testified that the man had taken money from both the cash register and a cigar box in which lottery receipts were kept,…