Posted on Jul 25, 2016 By John M. Cromwell
A divided intermediate New York appellate court declined to award a new trial in an appeal of a criminal conviction where the defendant claimed he was denied a fair trial because the prosecutor ...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2016 By John M. Cromwell
By a 7 -1 margin, the Country’s highest court has ruled that police must obtain a warrant, absent exigent circumstances, in order to extract blood from a suspect for purposes to use as evidence ...
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Posted on Apr 18, 2012 By John M. Cromwell
A Queens judge has prohibited prosecutors from using a video-taped statement obtained from a defendant prior to his arraignment because the Queens DA's Office procedure of interviewing defendants ...
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