New York Criminal Law in the News – Thursday, October, 13, 2011

• Barbra Sheehan ordered to stay in jail awaiting sentencing for gun possession (New York Times)
• Brooklyn man arrested for groping 13 women admits to police that he assaulted more women (New York Post)
• Nassau DA Rice will retest more evidence than initially planned (Newsday)
• Staten Island DA Donovan gets endorsements from Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby (Staten Island Advance)
• A man accused of murdering his wife last year hung himself while in the Erie County Detention Center (Buffalo News)
• After four days, a man was found not guilty of murdering his daughter (Times Union)
• State and local police uncover a multi-state drug ring and seize $2.7 million worth of cocaine (Democrat and Chronicle)
• An upstate funeral director is charged with sexually abusing his employee (Syracuse)
• Appellate Division Fourth Department rules that Monroe County DA cannot indict a man for first degree assault when he already plead guilty to second degree assault for the same crime (New York Law Journal)
• After shooting his daughter a man killed himself on a New Rochelle street (Lo Hud)

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New York Criminal Law in the News – Tuesday, October, 11, 2011

• Another woman is groped in Brooklyn; many believe the same man is behind the 12 attacks since March (New York TImes)
• 111 people were allegedly behind the $13 million Queens identity theft ring (New York Post)
• A police officer arrested in "ticket-fix" will testify in a homicide trial later this month, defense attorneys will cross him heavily on his recent arrest (New York Daily News)
• Nassau County may shutdown two police stations (Newsday)
• Occupy Wall Street is costing the city millions in police overtime (Staten Island Advance)
• A Buffalo man faces multiple felony charges after alleged sexual contact with a 14 year old girl (Buffalo News)
• An upstate inmate sentenced to 25 years to life in 2005 killed himself in jail on friday (Democrat and Chronicle)
• A man was arrested for placing a box in front of a house and implying it was a bomb (Lo Hud)
• Woman who died in a Saratoga Police Department jail cell had a heart problem and six prescription drugs in her system (The Saratogian)

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New York Criminal Law in the News – Tuesday, October, 4, 2011

• Former PTA treasurer ordered to pay back over $80,000 in restitution or else face jail time (New York Times)
• NYPD officers shot and killed a homeless woman after she came at them with a knife (New York Post)
• Closing arguments began in the Barbara Sheehan murder trial (New York Daily News)
• An off duty NYPD officer was shot but not seriously injured in Brooklyn (NY1)
• Five pounds of heroin and over $50,000 found during a search of a Fort Lee home (Newsday)
• Man found guilty by an Erie County jury of shooting a 15-year-old in the back (Buffalo News)
• Upstate family fought off burglars, one man was arrested when police arrived  (Times Union)
• Twenty people arrested in a ten month Rockland County drug investigation (Democrat and Chronicle)
• Cortland man allegedly choked a corrections officer in an attempted jail break (Syracuse)

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New York Criminal Law in the News – Friday, September, 30, 2011

• After SAT cheating ring is exposed, many believe it is widespread (New York Times)
• More videos emerge showing a deputy inspector using pepper spray on Wall Street protesters (NY1)
• Woman given a second chance in January and released from jail to get on a heart transplant list is sent back to jail after committing three more robberies (Newsday)
• A doctor faces more charges in a fatal hit and run, prosecutors believe he deleted text messages and removed DNA from his SUV (Buffalo News)
• Four upstate teens are accused of putting makeshift bombs in mailboxes (Democrat and Chronicle)
• While awaiting sentencing for gun possession a man was arrested yesterday with a gun (Syracuse)
• Man who held up the same Manhattan bank three times was recently released from a mental institution (New York Post)
• Woman pled guilty to criminally negligent homicide after pushing her 70-year-old mother to the ground and leaving her there (LoHud)
• Judge suppresses pistol after he concludes police officer's testimony not creditable (New York Law Journal)

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New York Criminal Law in the News – Thursday, September, 22, 2011

• Chief Judge Lippmann vows to create an experimental adult criminal court parts for non violent offenders that are 16-17 years old (New York Law Journal)
• New legislation legalizes small fireworks in NYS, except they will still be illegal in NYC (New York Times)
• Queens woman accused of shooting her husband 11 times refused to hold the guns on the witness stand (New York Post)
• New law aimed at protecting victims of sex trafficking will prevent women who are forced into the trade from being convicted of prostitution (New York Daily News)
• NYPD officer pleads not guilty to raping a teacher at gun point (NY1)
• Suffolk police have received 19 new leads since releasing the photos of the Gilgo Beach victims (Newsday)
• Inmate collected unemployment while in jail; now he will serve more time in jail (Buffalo News)
• Tickets for texting while driving doubled since becoming a primary offense (Syracuse)
• Police capture drug supplier who was on the run since June (Staten Island Advance)
• Prosecutors blame lack of DNA knowledge in 1996 for their not presenting DNA evidence at the trial of a man accused of killing two people in a 1996 double homicide (Lo Hud)  

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