New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

They yelled and fought and screamed and shouted at one another. Formerly husband and wife, now living together a year after their divorce was finalized. Things were tense but no one could have foreseen what would happen next. He first took a knife and stabbed her to death, repeatedly ramming the steel into her until she died, reported a New York Criminal Lawyer. Then he took twenty gallons of gasoline – a great deal more than a full tank of gas – and drenched the house they had once shared, said a New York Criminal Lawyer. He lit a match and watched as he burned the house he and his former wife had built together. He watched as he burned the body of his dead wife. The flames peeled away at the interior of their house, leaving behind little trace of a life that had once begun with a happy wedding.

To say that the man was unstable is an understatement. Last month he had unsuccessfully tried to take his own life, noted a New York Criminal Lawyer. The middle east native was clearly unhappy and that anger and hate and rage and disturbance drove him to an act of violence unfathomable to most people. A grand jury has indicted the man.

They have handed down an indictment of second degree murder and third degree arson. In response the man has plead not guilty. Police claim the man confessed to the crimes. They have a written confession, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer.

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A yellow cab smashed into an East Village coffee shop after losing control early one morning, critically injuring an elderly man, and hurting four others, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The taxi was headed north on First Ave. when it hit a Jeep Cherokee turning from E. Third street, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. The taxi left the street and struck two bicyclists, then went into the coffee shop, hitting a 71-year-old man who was sitting at a table by the front window.

There were also passengers in the taxi, a 30-year-old woman and her boyfriend. They had only been in the cab for less than a minute before the accident occurred. The woman hit her face on the glass divider, losing two teeth and cutting her lip.

A four-year-old girl, who had suffered from malnutrition, was found dead in a filthy Brooklyn apartment, a New York Criminal Lawyer has learned. Police have found evidence she was bound to her crib.

The girl weighed only fifteen pounds and had bruises and marks on her ankles that suggested she had been tied down with twine. Police are still investigating the cause of death, which may have been neglect, or may have just been the tragic ending of the life of a young girl who had spent most of her life in hospitals.

When responding to a 911 call from the home, police found the child on the mother’s bed. Inside the dirty room was a bed for the girl, with two lengths of twine attached to the rails on each end, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has instructed the agency’s legal offices to stop deporting certain foreign nationals who may in fact be eligible for a green card, a New York Criminal Lawyer has learned.

New York Criminal Lawyers and immigration activists say this is evidence that ICE is easing up on foreign nationals that would otherwise face deportation. This could affect possibly tens of thousands who may be married or related to a U.S. citizen or legal resident who has filed a petition for them. These immigrants cannot have any criminal convictions to be considered.

The assistant secretary of ICE told a New York Criminal Lawyer that the agency will drop procedures against anyone new eligible under the new guidelines. “Where there is an underlying application or petition and ICE determines … that a non-detained individual appears eligible for relief from removal, [its attorneys] should promptly move to dismiss proceedings,” the assistant secretary wrote to the agency’s principal legal advisor.

In a recent criminal case, a serial rapist was sentenced to an additional 12 years in prison for the rape of a prostitute. The rapist was sobbing in court as the judge read the sentence. According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, the judge remarked that he was unmoved by the attacker’s tears.

The rapist had already been convicted of another rape of a local babysitter, a crime for which he received 15 years to life for. The attacker is 23 years old, and will see his first parole board only after he turns 50 years old. A New York Criminal Lawyer said that he cried, “I’m sorry” during the trial.

The attack happened in the woman’s minivan in a parking lot four years ago. The rapist threatened to woman with a knife when he raped, even going so far as to taunt her for her undesirable profession as a prostitute. He also was reported to have said that he could kill her and no one would care.

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The only survivor of a brutal attack took the stand to recount her horrific tale. According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, the woman was at a local playground socializing with friends and listening to music when the suspects arrived and allegedly started the attack with left her friends and brother dead, and her with half her face paralyzed.

The suspects allegedly pulled down her shorts and began to sexually assault her, and as she cried for help, they executed her brother and the two friends. Then, using a machete, the suspects began to hack at her neck, apparently trying to decapitate the poor woman. Obviously, they failed to remove her head, but they did end up shooting her in the head. She miraculously survived and was able to take the stand. The attack is reported by a New York Criminal Lawyer to have been part of a gang initiation.

The defendant showed no emotion as his crimes were recounted, said a New York Criminal Lawyer. The victim was nineteen years old at the time of the attack, and in college. No word was given as to whether or not she was able to return to her studies. Her name was withheld.

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During a recent trial for the murder of a young single mother, the woman’s taped phone calls were played as evidence to convict her ex-boyfriend, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The woman was in a rocky relationship with the defendant, who is accused of having torture the woman to death. The phone calls ranged from playful and perhaps even at times loving, to harsh and angry. Some of the calls verged on violent. According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, the defendant’s lawyer said that evidence of a difficult relationship is not evidence of murder.

Unfortunately for the defendant, the tapes do have various threats on them, and while some do not have outright threats from the defendant, they do show that the victim feared for her life and was unsure of what he ex was going to do. One tape even has her saying that their relationship may be the end of her.

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The job of a Bronx principal may be in danger after he was found to be giving a contract to an after-school program for a business he was a part of, officials told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The principal was relieved of his duties at Community School 50 in the Bronx after a Special Commissioner of Investigations determined that the principal had helped to rig the bids, a New York Criminal Lawyer has learned.

The $12,700 contract was given, by the principal, to an after-school program where the kids wrote, edited, and published a magazine for a company whose trademark the principal jointly owns, the commissioner told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The case of a Brooklyn woman who claims she’s the victim of mistaken identity has been put on hold for another two months. She is accused of running over a traffic agent’s foot, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Sources tell New York Criminal Lawyers that prosecutors have requested a postponement in the case. “I’m so disappointed,” said the defendant to a New York Criminal Lawyer, as she left Brooklyn Criminal Court. “I thought they would just drop the case. Now we have to come back again.”

The 39-year-old woman was arrested and accused of attacking a traffic agent after she left a pharmacy in Sheepshead Bay. She emerged to find her car being ticketed. The pharmacy gave the authorities her name and she was picked out of a lineup by the agent she allegedly assaulted. The defendant maintains that she was not the one who did it – it was another woman with the exact same name. She says it was a relative who refuses to come forward.

It took twenty years, but a Manhattan widow finally admitted to hiring a hit man to murder her rich husband outside his girlfriend’s place, a New York Criminal Lawyer reports. The 68-year-old woman gave her confession in Manhattan Supreme Court, saying she had her husband killed so she could get the benefit of his $4.3 million life insurance policies.

She could face 12 to 36 years in prison, a New York Criminal Lawyer relates. “I’ve always known that she did it. I’ve known for 20 years,” a close relative of the slain man said to a New York Criminal Lawyer. “There was nobody else that could have done it.” “It’s very painful,” the relative added.

The prosecutor in the case questioned the woman until she finally admitted to conspiring with her divorce lawyer in the 1990 murder. “Did [your divorce lawyer] tell you he was going to hire a hit man?” the prosecutor asked the woman. She answered in an emotionless voice, “Yes.”