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 Mar 30, 2012 By Law Office of John M. Cromwell
Client was a passenger in a car which the police pulled over for an alleged defective plate light. The officers searched the car and found 590 bags of heroin in the back seat where client was sitting. ...
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