New York Crimes Arranged in Alphabetical Order Being charged with a felony or misdemeanor? See the list of all offenses in New York State CRIME NAME PENAL CODE OFFENSE LEVEL abandonment of a child 260.00 E non-violent felony abortion in the first degree 125.45 D violent felony abortion in the second degree 125.40 E non-violent […]
READ MOREInterview With Jerry McDevitt on Dr. Wecht’s Trial
In the first of two posts, Pittsburgh criminal defense attorney, Jerry McDevitt, comments on his successful defense of famed pathologist, Dr. Cyril Wecht. Q: Jerry congratulations on the dismissal of all charges in the Wecht case in the Western District of Pennsylvania earlier this month. (Readers can find earlier posts here) I want to talk […]
READ MOREWhat you Should Know About New York Driving Laws Concerning Mobile Phones and Electronic Devices
Under New York law, it is illegal to hold a portable electronic device such as a mobile phone or laptop computer while driving. This means that you may not talk on a handheld mobile phone, text, read email, surf web pages, play games or transmit images. A portable electronic device is any hand-held mobile phone […]
READ MOREJudicial Watch: DOJ Documents reveal Justice Department Organized Trevon Martin Protests
Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch announced today that has obtained documents in response to local, state, and federal requests revealing that a little-known unit of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Community Relations Service (CRS), was deployed to Sanford, FL, following the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman. JW filed a Freedom […]
READ MOREBody Armor Levels
Christmas Day wasn’t silent in Utah where authorities say cops shot a man after he claimed to have explosives in his home. Carrying a medieval battle ax, the man survived attempts to tase him because he was wearing body armor. After two officers from Cedar City tried twice to use their stun guns, the 38-year-old […]
READ MORESteven Truscott: Wrongful Conviction in Canada
the National Parole BoardOn the outskirts of Clinton, Ontario is a spot where two lives came to an end in the summer of 1959. One person quit breathing. While the other kept breathing, life, as he knew it, came to and end. Steven Truscott, 14, and Lynne Harper, 12, both were children of Royal Canadian […]
READ MOREWine Connoisseur Busted for Fraud
The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that one of the world’s leading fine wine collectors, Rudy Kurniawan, was arrested for wine fraud (well, they didn’t actually say “wine fraud”), apparently, the guy was arrested for mail and wire fraud related to fraudulently obtaining loans and attempting to sell counterfeit bottles of French Burgundy. Turning a wonderful […]
READ MORESupreme Court Decides Setser: And the Last Word on Sentencing Goes to . . .
The U.S. Supreme Court recently addressed the roles of two entities that often have a substantial impact on the sentence actually served by a federal criminal defendant—state courts and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). District court judges have discretion to impose sentences that are either consecutive to or concurrent with a federal sentence that […]
READ MOREAre Police Taking Over the Drug Trade
The Strokes’ most infamous song, “New York City Cops” was pulled from America’s release of “Is This It” because of one line: “New York City cops They ain’t too smart.” The song is hardly the incendiary piece of anti-authoritarian polemic it was made out to be, and the line about New York cops could easily […]
READ MOREHackers crack more than 60% of breached LinkedIn passwords
Speed of hackers to crack passwords shows weakness of security scheme used by LinkedIn, researchers say. More than 60% of the unique hashed passwords that were accessed by hackers from a LinkedIn password database and posted online this week have already been cracked, according to security firm Sophos. It’s very likely the remaining passwords have […]
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