New York Prosecutors Don’t Always Play By the Rules
Pushed by political dreams, ineptness or something else, prosecutors don’t always follow the rules. When they ignore accepted “best practices”, justice is delayed. A legal maxim says “justice delayed is justice denied.” Now, some state legislators are talking about changes which will make at least one scheme unavailable to prosecutors.
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New York Residents Get Warrants Dismissed
Arrested decades ago in New York and failed to show up in court? Breathe easier. Your warrant may be just one of hundreds of thousands being dismissed as Manhattan’s District Attorney reviews old cases and gives (some) people the chance at a do-over.
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New York Implements Man Up! To Drive Down Violence
New York City has always had a reputation for crime. Occasionally the reputation was better than reality, but too often the reputation failed to live up to real life. Regardless, a new program, modeled after one in Chicago, is demonstrably reducing violent crime as it intervenes in young adults.
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Top New York City Crime Movies
Remember the ‘good old days’ in New York City when crime and corruption were found on Main Street and not Wall Street? Yeah, neither do most people. For those of us who want to relive the “glory years” of crime in the city, there’s always NetFlix. The movies on this list are not the only ones that show a snapshot of New York, but they’re generally recognize as being among the best.
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Self-Defense With Everyday Objects
It’s not everyone someone may need to protect themselves with powder detergent, a rock or even a slipper, but it’s nice to know self-defense – in an emergency – can be supplemented with everyday objects found around the house.
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Trial Brings No Solace to Mother after Son’s Death
Brandon L Woodard was killed in broad daylight in Manhattan in 2012. The accused for the murder include Lloyd T. McKenzie and four other men. Lead prosecutor Christopher Prevost says that this was a brutal cold and calculated murder. The entire case relies on the testimony of Quran Pender, a former actor, who was also part of the smuggling ring and is now cooperating with law enforcement.
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Things Your Mom Never Told You About Traveling
Following 9/11, American authorities established the Transportation Security Administration to help secure American borders. Many observers feel that nothing was done other than putting a band aid on a major wound. The TSA has been consistently accused of being a bloated agency with too big a budget and too little training for front-line workers who would be more qualified to hold a job where they ask, “Do you want fries with that?” Although not an exposé, “Things Your Mom Never Told You About Traveling” raises again points raised previously. They are points that everyone needs to know and be aware.
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Possessing Marijuana While Black
On any given day, at least 135,000 men and women sit idle behind bars on simple drug possession charges. Nearly two-thirds of those are in local jails. Most have not been convicted of a crime. They’re in a cell, waiting for their day in court which may be months — or years — off since […]
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New Yorker Rents a $21,000-a-month Penthouse and Qualifies for a Public Defender
When an indigent person gets arrested, the American constitution mandates that even they have the right to be represented in court. But what about those times when someone who can afford a $21,000 a month penthouse is arrested. Do they have the same right? And how does a person set about getting a ‘public defender’ anyway?
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Manhattan Doctor Busted For Prescribing Unneeded Painkiller Medication
A Manhattan physician got busted for prescribing thousands of narcotics to people who did not even have a clinical exam. The pills were prescribed without any clinical indication for large sums of money. In the past 5 years alone Dr. Martin Tesher wrote more than 14,000 prescriptions for oxycodone. Dr. Tesher rarely kept any medical records and simply ignored all signs of addiction. He is set to be sentenced soon.
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