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Every day for nearly sixteen years he sat in a tiny jail cell convinced that he was going to die. He had been charged and convicted of helping murder a family. An innocent family was beaten, bruised, battered, tied down, murdered, and finally set on fire, said a New York Criminal Lawyer. The prosecutors said that the man had helped killed a woman and her four children. Yet, the only evidence linking the man to the murders was the testimony of the man believed to have carried out the actual killings, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer.

That man later recanted his statement, professing that the newly freed man was innocent of all wrong doing. Prosecutors apparently did not care and kept him in jail. In 2006 a judge overturned his conviction, finding that there was not enough evidence. This didn’t matter to prosecutors: they retired him, said a New York Criminal Lawyer. They went forward with another trial, another attempt to put this man behind bars, another try and sentencing him to death – and they had no evidence. As such, the man is now free as the charges against him have been dropped, said a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Almost two decades of life not just gone, not just forever lost, but spent convinced that you are going to face death. Face death for a crime you never committed. That is the terrible, horrible, life changing fate he found himself facing and that is the hell he will never forget.

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Two people were wounded by gunfire while shopping at a clothing store in Brooklyn, witnesses and police told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The shooting victims were a 58-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man, who each were shot in the leg when an unknown gunman shot through the front glass of a store window on Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave. in Crown Heights at about 7:15 p.m., cops and witnesses told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Both of the victims were taken to Brookdale University Hospital, were they were categorized as being in stable condition. There have been no arrests made so far, as of this writing. New York Criminal Lawyers were unable to ascertain any details regarding the suspect or why the shooting occurred. There have been no statements released, either by the victims or the police.

An elderly man has been accused of trying to rob a busy midtown bank the day after he got out of prison, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer. He pleaded not guilty, even though he was wounded in the attempt.

The 69-year-old man was shot in the leg during the holdup at a Chase branch near Madison Square Garden, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. He had to come to Manhattan Federal Court in a wheelchair.

“It hurts. I can’t stand,” the suspect told his court-appointed attorney, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. He was wearing a yellow band on his wrist that labeled him as a ‘fall risk’, so the authorities bringing him to court or to and from his cell would handle him accordingly.

It had been more than 20 years since he’d brutally slain his victim and while the old adage that justice delayed is justice denied may often prove true at least in this case justice has finally been doled out. The appeals process in a death penalty case can often be a long, arduous, and trying affair for all involved, notes a New York Criminal Lawyer. The families of both the victim and killer are often required to go through rigorous investigatory processes. They can be subjected to intense questioning both in and out of the court room, said a New York Criminal Lawyer.

In this case, the delay was unique in that the killer’s appeal made its way to the United States of America’s Supreme Court. The high court of the land heard arguments from both sides about whether the origin of one of the drugs used in executing the killer needed to be disclosed, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer. Newly appointed Justice Elena Kagan made one of her first rulings as a Supreme Court Justice, voting with the minority of justices in believing that the prosecutors needed to disclose from which country the drug had originated. She was on the wrong side on this day though as the Court voted 5-4 in permitting the execution to proceed. The court sounded quite annoyed that the appeal had ever made it this far, said a New York Criminal Lawyer. The company that makes the drug in question had temporarily suspended production of the drug, leading officials to seek supplies from a company outside the United States. Defense attorneys argued that this could constitute cruel and unusual punishment and would thus violated the US Constitution.

Being charged with a criminal offense is often a damaging occurrence. It can permanently ruin one’s reputation and life. If you find yourself charged with a crime immediately contact a New York Criminal Attorney.

A Brooklyn man has been charged with the murder of a Pace University student and ordered to be held without bail – and even prosecutors agree that the man was not actually the shooter. It was his accomplice that committed the fatal act, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The 21-year-old victim of the shooting was a dealer of marijuana who lived in a high-rise building on Gold Street in lower Manhattan. He was murdered by gunfire on September 29.

The 30-year-old suspect was in court, facing charges of murder, burglary, and assault, according to New York Criminal Lawyers. His accomplice, also 30, was still in Pennsylvania, as prosecutors attempted to extradite him from the other state back to New York. “When [the victim] put up a fight, the co-defendant shot and killed him,” an assistant district attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The FBI returned to a mob graveyard on Long Island to find the resting place of a supposed Colombo mobster who had been killed more than 15 years ago, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The search was the second in two years for the dead mobster in the industrial park in East Farmingdale. Another Colombo capo’s body was found at the site back in October 2008. An FBI spokesman told a New York Criminal Lawyer they had found nothing so far, but will continue to dig for a while.

A mob informant admitted participating in the murder of the dead mobster in August 1995. He told federal authorities that the dead mobster was suspected of informing on the mob and lured into the home of one of his cohorts on 76th Street in Brooklyn, where he was shot to death in the basement.

Vermont State Police have arrested a 49-year-old woman for texting while driving as well as driving under the influence after a crash on Interstate 89 in Richmond, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The driver, from Claremont, New Hampshire, was headed north when she drove her car off the road, running first into the guardrails, and then into trees. She did not sustain any injuries in the accident, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Not only was she driving under the influence, New York Criminal Lawyers have learned, but she was allegedly consuming alcohol even while she was driving. All this was in addition to her texting while driving. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, but police have already told New York Criminal Lawyers that inattention was surely a contributing factor.