New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

A Bronx judge continues to deny allegations of gambling addiction, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. It is also alleged that he is the target of loansharks who are known to hurt people who don’t pay them. If he is in danger, the judge and his lawyer refuse to say whether he owed $500,000 to the Queens woman who claimed he owed her the cash.

The woman sued the judge, and he did not show up to work the next day. She claims he borrowed the money from her to avoid being pursued by the loansharks he owed. The judge’s lawyer has said his client will fight the suit.

“[He] is not a gambler and has never been a gambler,” the lawyer said. “He’s never had a relationship with a loanshark.” He described the 57-year-old judge as a “social acquaintance” of the Queens woman, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. They attended law school at SUNY at the same time.

A former copy was acquitted of assault after knocking a protester form his bike, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer, but he was convicted of lying about what did actually happen.

The verdict seems to rely upon a YouTube video of the incident that occurred in Times Square in 2008. The tape shows the rookie officer slamming into a biker, who had apparently been trying to avoid the cop.

The 24-year-old ex-cop claimed he arrested the biker, after the cyclist purposely ran into him, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer. The ex-officer also claimed on the witness stand that his superiors ordered him to do something about the bikers during a protest.

Ultimate Fighting Championship star Tito Ortiz, 35, was charged with felony domestic violence against the mother of his twin boys, former porn star Jenna Jameson. The 36-year-old leading lady of XXX-rated movies told a New York Criminal Lawyer, “Tito is a loving, sweet man. I’ve always supported him. For him to lash out at me is shocking.”

When asked if she was going to press charges, she responded, “Oh, yeah!” “You have to press charges,” Jameson explained. “This isn’t just something you can get over.” Jameson’s father, an ex-Las Vegas cop, told a New York Criminal Lawyer that his daughter obtained a restraining order immediately against Ortiz.

Ortiz himself denied being abusive, even as cops placed him in the back of a squad car. A brusque “No” was his only response when he was asked about the accusation by a cameraman during his arrest. Jameson’s father was at the house, owned by Ortiz, when the abuse occurred. He was the one who called 911, reporting a “disturbance” at 9:53 a.m.

A man convicted of molesting a young karate student will not return to jail, even though a Bronx judge ruled the offender would be unable to stop abusing young boys, said a New York Criminal Lawyer. The convicted sex offender abused a 10-year-old child while working as a martial arts instructor. When he was released from jail, the Attorney General’s office attempted to put him into civil confinement.

A Bronx jury ruled the man, 48, did not show any signs of mental illness. He was set free and currently resides in an upstate halfway group home. “(The convicted sex offender) has a mental disorder, pedophilia, and that he has serious difficulty controlling his unlawful conduct,” an Acting Supreme Court Judge informed a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The judge is unable to put aside the jury’s verdict, nor he can order a new trial, due to loopholes in a 2007 state mental hygiene law. New York Criminal Lawyers have confirmed that the prosecutors intend to appeal the case.

A 33-year-old man, father of two, was killed with a bullet to the face in the East Village recently, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The victim was killed in broad daylight on Avenue D between E. 3rd and E. 4th St. around 12:30 p.m, by an unknown assailant or by multiple assailants. The exact details of the shooting are unknown for the time being. He died shortly after being admitted to Bellevue Hospital. “He was a caring father,” his sister told a New York Criminal Lawyer. “My brother’s dead. This has to stop.”

Witnesses told a New York Criminal Lawyer they saw four men fleeing the scene. It remains unclear why the victim was targeted. Police have revealed the victim had prior arrests for assault and criminal possession of a weapon. The search for the killer or killers is ongoing and there are no real known leads, as of yet. Investigators are looking into every aspect of the case and hope to have more information soon.

A former NYPD cop has pleaded guilty to armed robbery of a northern New Jersey perfume warehouse, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The officer is the third current or former member of the police force who admits to stealing from the Carlstadt warehouse, near Giants Stadium, in February. New York Criminal Lawyers have learned that the other two officers have also pleaded guilty, also accepting the charge of armed robbery.

As of now, there is no further information as to the fate of the former police officers. Sentencing has not come down. New York Criminal Lawyers re looking into the case to find more details as they are brought to light.

A woman was attacked by a pair of thugs in Carroll Gardens, polices sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The two assailants, aged 20 and 26 years, were at Smith and Ninth streets when the 20-year-old suspect tossed some sort of liquid on a woman walking to the elevated station, police sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The victim, a 43-year-old woman, confronted her 20-year-old assailant, who then punched the victim in the mouth as the 26-year-old choked her, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

A straphanger was instrumental in catching a thief who was trying to get away with his cash and jewelry, authorities said to a New York Criminal Lawyer. The suspect was unable to flee the scene until the police arrived, thanks to the actions of his would-be victim.

Sources tell New York Criminal Lawyers that the victim was asleep aboard a southbound Number 1 train close to South Ferry at 4:15 a.m., early on a Sunday morning, when the suspect approached and cut open the victim’s left front pocket.

The suspect managed to steal a watch and some cash as the train pulled into the station, authorities told a New York Criminal Lawyer, but the activities of the thief woke the victim, who then grabbed the thief and held him for the cops.

A teenager armed with a gun showed some remorse when he turned himself in to police for shooting two boys in Brownsville, police informed a New York Criminal Lawyer. It is currently unknown why he was brandishing the gun or why shots were fired at all. Further details have yet to be revealed.

The 18-year-old gunman allegedly informed a New York Criminal Lawyer that he was not aiming at his victims when he shot two young boys, aged 12 and 10 years of age, on Legion Street near Sutter Avenue one Monday at 8:15 p.m.

Despite his protests that the shooting was accidental, the 18-year-old suspect was charged with attempted murder, assault, and weapons possession, sources told a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The state’s highest court has refused to hear the appeal of a man convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Selden teenager. The incident occurred outside the convicted man’s home at Miller Place.

The 56-year-old man seems to have no other recourse for appeals and will soon be back in court for sentencing, a spokeswoman for the Suffolk County district attorney’s office told a New York Criminal Lawyer. At that point, the judge could send the man to prison for 2 to 4 years for the death of a seventeen-year-old boy in 2006.

The now convicted man has been free on $200,000 bail during the appeals process. According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, an associate judge of the state Court of Appeals denied the defendant’s request to have his case reviewed by the court. The judge wrote, “There is no question of law presented which ought to be reviewed by the Court of Appeals.” The defendant’s attorney told a New York Criminal Lawyer he was “evaluating our additional options.”