Recent Posts in Juvenile Offenses Category
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 Sep 6, 2012 By John Cromwell
A recent article in the September 3, 2012 issue of the New Yorker magazine highlights some of the dirty little secrets of our society's so-called "war on drugs", and points to the ...
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Posted on Jun 16, 2012 By John M. Cromwell
Effectively immediately, President Obama has instructed federal immigration authorities to cancel deportation proceedings against certain young "low risk" immigrants – those who came ...
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Posted on Apr 2, 2012 By John M. Cromwell
Albany politicians recently reached an agreement on a novel Juvenile Justice initiative that would transfer several hundred NYC low and mid-level juvenile delinquents currently incarcerated sometimes ...
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