New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

The defendant had already been convicted of manslaughter for killing his neighbor by the jury, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

One of the key concepts in the case, included prominently in the jury instructions, was “prudence”. Specifically, they were asked to determine whether the defendant acted in prudence when it came to the victim.

The jury foreperson used his iPhone to access an Encarta and look up the word “prudence”, during a break from deliberations. He then shared this information with the other jurors, sources told New York Criminal Lawyers.

The family of a man who died in a tragic hunting accident in Keene in 2008 is now seeking civil action against the man who killed him, New York Criminal Lawyers have learned.

The widow of the victim and her two daughters are plaintiffs in the suit against the shooter, suing him for wrongful death and negligence, as well as other grounds. The complaint, according to New York Criminal Lawyers, lists all the various ways the shooter showed his negligence when he fired that fatal shot.

He has already been convicted of criminally negligent homicide, several months before the suit was filed, and sentenced to the maximum time in prison – one-and-a-third to four years in prison, in September 2010.

A corrections officer who was brandishing a gun, seems to lead a charmed life. Cops shot at him 20 times and he was only shot in the arm once, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The 35-year-old guard was shot at about 3:45 a.m. in the Bronx after he defied requests to drop his 9mm Glock. Instead, he pointed at the plainclothes officers, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

“There were lots of shots. It sounded like 50,” said a 55-year-old witness. She ducked into an alley with her Yorkie when the guns started to go off.

“The smell of the gunpowder was really heavy,” she told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Witnesses reported a man with a gun was leaving a club and walking down the street, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Federal authorities have arrested the suspect who allegedly killed the daughter of a Concord police chief, according to New York Criminal Lawyers.

The 34-year-old suspect was in Niagara Falls when the U.S. Marshals caught him and brought him in. The arrest was without incident, the police chief of Charlotte-Mecklinburg told a New York Criminal Lawyer. He was driving a stolen Chevrolet Blazer, which was also recovered.

The suspect was found in a house where he used to live, asleep on the couch of a male friend. Eighteen officers came to arrest him, a U.S. Marshal told a New York Criminal Lawyer. State, local, and federal officers were all involved in the suspect’s capture. It is believed he had been in the friend’s house since noon the previous day.

20 of the biggest cities in the United States were ranked and San Diego came out first in the largest percentage of drivers with alcohol-related driving convictions, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. Next in line were San Jose, California, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

San Diego police told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the high rank is not due to a higher incidence of drunk driving, but due to the department’s aggressive approach to enforcing laws against drunk driving. They also apply for grants from both state and federal sources to hold DWI checkpoints and saturation patrols several times a year.

California has had a long history, both with driving under the influence and with efforts to put an end to it. A 13-year-old girl was hit by a drunk driver in 1980 as she was walking to a school carnival in Fair Oaks, California. The girl was struck hard enough to knock her out of her shoes and she ended up, dead, 125 feet from the point of impact. The driver fled the scene, only to have his wife turn him in when he tried to hide his damaged car from her, MADD told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Naturalized U.S. citizen Faisal Shahzad was given a life sentence in prison for driving a vehicle full of bombs into New York’s Time Square, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. There is no parole in the federal penal system.

“The defendant has repeated expressed his total lack of remorse and his desire, if given the opportunity, to repeat the crime,” the judge said. “Allahu Akbar,” Shahzad replied in Arabic. The words mean “God is great”. The 31-year-old Shahzad was born in Pakistan.

Shahzad worked with the Taliban in Pakistan and was in a terrorist training camp only months before he became an American citizen, according to New York Criminal Lawyers. When asked by the judge about the oath of allegiance he took to become an American citizen, Shahzad said, “I did swear, but I did not mean it.”

The police used their cars to corner a driver in a Long Island parking lot, but that didn’t stop her from escaping, police sources informed a New York Criminal Lawyer. She merely used her vehicle to ram through the impromptu barricade.

Police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the 41-year-old woman almost ran down a number of officers late one afternoon, setting off a frantic chase that started in Deer Park and continued for 11 minutes until she was arrested, several towns away. “She hit the police cars, pushed them out of the way and kept going,” a Suffolk County police lieutenant told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The woman was being sought after for a parole violation and arrested in North Lindenhurst. After her arraignment, she was held on an unspecified amount of bail. One of the officers in one of the cars struck by the fleeing suspect’s Ford Taurus sustained a neck injury. The officer was taken to the hospital, where he was deemed to be in stable condition.

A Long Island woman is now recovering from a vicious attack by a man with a hammer in July, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer. Police sources told New York Criminal Lawyers the attacker was a man the victim had hired to work for her as a handyman. She met him at a Home Depot store and brought him to her home on July 24, 2010 to do some work around the house.

The suspect fixed the victim’s toilet, but she said he did not do a satisfactory job. When she complained about it to the handyman, he allegedly grew angry with her and hit her with the hammer, leaving multiple fractures, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Nassau County Police told a New York Criminal Lawyer the suspect fled after the attack. Police have been searching for him, but have been unable to arrest him at this time. The suspect may have more charges awaiting him, as well – authorities say his DNA may also link him to a rape case in Texas. The search is still ongoing and there is no further information regarding the case at this time.

Detectives had been watching the man for a while, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. Seeing him carrying marijuana plants was the last straw. It was time to make the arrest.

The 45-year-old suspect was arrested on drug and weapon charges.The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office told a New York Criminal Lawyer the suspect was not only growing marijuana in his yard, but at a business, as well.

When detectives saw him carrying pots bearing the illegal herb, they made the arrest. They also found more plants, along with the materials needed to properly care for them. All told, New York Criminal Lawyers have learned, the suspect had 55 plants between his home and his business, according to the sheriff’s office.

A man carrying a knife in Upper Manhattan was shot and killed by police after ignoring repeated demands to drop the weapon, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. He was even tasered to no effect.

The 24-year-old man pulled the Taser’s electric probes from his body, and two officers shot him nine times, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The man was pronounced dead at New York-Presbyterian/Allen hospital.

Police released a recording and transcript the night after the shooting took place of a 911 call in which the knife-wielding man threatened to kill police officers. When the 911 operator asked the man what his emergency was, he replied, “I want you to call the cops because I’m ready to kill.” “What?” replied the operator. The man continued. “I’m ready to kill some cops right now.”