New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

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.

The New York Police Department is searching for a man who violently attacked and sexually assaulted a woman in the elevator of a Washington Heights building, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

It appears that the suspect followed his victim for some time, a 42-year-old woman, into the lobby of a St. Nicholas Ave. apartment building at 3 a.m. on Monday, jumping on her when she got into the elevator.

The attacker fled once the elevator doors opened. Authorities have withheld the identity of the victim, who was treated at a local hospital and then released. Further details on her condition or any description of her attack are currently unknown to New York Criminal Lawyers, though an elevator camera shot of a man in a baseball cap has been captured of the suspect.

A former union boss claimed the formerly-influential head of the city’s largest contractor’s association as a major crime family’s contact for corrupt construction unions, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The ex-union boss claimed the contractor was a messenger for a powerful mob capo who carried orders to the unions in the late 1990s. The contractor is currently on trial in Manhattan Federal Court for allegedly lying about his ties to the crime family, sources told a New York criminal Lawyer.

The ex-boss confessed to bribe-taking in 2004 and says he was only following the contractor’s orders to give union cards to mob favorites. When he refused to raise a “totally corrupt” union official to a management position, he says he was warned by the contract, “If you don’t, you’re going to be in a world of hurt.”

Illegal prescription drug use continues to rise, and is becoming a greater problem for law enforcement, says a New York Criminal Lawyer. The number of DUI cases involving a prescription drug rather than alcohol also continues to rise. Unfortunately, prosecuting such charges can be rather difficult.

Many states don’t even have or require tests to quantify how what drugs might be in a driver’s system, nor is it always easy to prove that such a person is impaired. “What we and other states have run into historically is that there is a well-developed system to quantify the amount of alcohol in the human body,” a Florida prosecutor told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

He continued on to say: “…when you have an oxycodone or an opiate, we do not have a well-developed way to quantify the amount of drugs so that a jury can then compare that value to a standard established as an unlawful when operating an automobile.”

A fan ran onto Yankee Stadium field during a game to confront A-Rod about his love for Cameron Diaz, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Apparently, the fan had a crush of his own on Diaz, and did not enjoy the competition.

The 33-year-old fan was taken down by security at the Stadium when he tried to rush the third baseman at the top of the fifth inning during Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, tackling him to the ground.

Police found a picture in the suspect’s pocket of Alex Rodriguez with his face crossed out and a drawing of a small gun pointed at his head. Written on the photo were the words, “You gotta go, buddy.” As for A-Rod, he had no comment, perhaps smarting over his team’s painful 10-3 loss to the Texas Rangers.