A 21-year-old New York kid gets indicted for hate crimes when he stole two Rainbow Flags from a New York church.
READ MOREA Sixty-Year-Old New York Mystery May Affect A 2018 Investigation
A sixty-year old New York mystery may block Special Prosecutor Mueller’s effort to release grand jury testimony.
READ MORENew York Prosecutors Don’t Always Play By the Rules
There is an uprising trend to make NY District Attorneys start releasing evidence long before trial to make a criminal justice system more fair.
READ MOREJust What Is An Ar15?
Another mass shooting, this one in Florida, and pundits are throwing around words like ‘assault rifle’ not even knowing what they’re talking about. It will be impossible for a person, or a group, to produce meaningful gun legislation if they can’t even get the terms right.
READ MOREFruit Of The Poisonous Tree Often Used To Trigger Local Arrests
Local arrests are not always locally affected. Often the so-called evidence has been provided to state and local authorities through the illicit complicity between the National Security Agency (NSA) and various branches of the federal government.
READ MORENew York State Tightens Hate Crime Laws Following Charlottesville
“What are these illegal immigrants doing here? I hate immigrant people,” yelled David Caputo according to prosecutors. The diminutive man had a machete when he threatened to kill and man on a Sunset Park street in June. On December 6, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun refused prosecutors’ request to boost Caputo’s bail to $10,000. […]
READ MORESmile! You’re Being Surveilled By New York’s Finest
New Yorkers see them strapped to the back of patrol cars, mounted on toll booths and hanging on metal posts along the highway. “They” are automatic license plate readers and have become the spark of an ongoing debate in the balance between crime fighting and privacy invasion.
READ MOREMichael Brown Could Have Just Stopped Running
Ferguson, Missouri ripped apart in August 2014 when a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed a black teenager, Michael Brown. Protests echoed from America’s east coast to west coast, but maybe it took a New York City playwright to put the pieces together.
READ MOREF-Bombs Litter The Courtroom And Elsewhere
A word which used to be limited to locker rooms and schoolyard spats is now getting national coverage thanks to a trio of offenders — including a New York City judge who was instructed to begin his retirement a month early.
READ MOREAmerican Citizen Convicted in Suicide Attack
A failed suicide bombing in Afghanistan raises old arguments: should an American be tried in an American court of law for crimes committed while serving with the enemy, or should that person be killed in a drone strike. Execution without due process is the avenue American jurists are weighing.
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