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Incoming Monroe County Bar Association president Carolyn Nussbaum plans to spend a lot of time in the coming year listening to what local attorneys want from the bar association, while getting the word out about all the things the organization ...

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The number of cases handled by the Monroe County Conflict Defender continues to climb, according to the office’s annual report for 2018. There were 8,394 cases referred to the office last year, up from 8,144 in 2017. Since 2015, when ...

A recent decision by the state’s highest court may impact the way accusatory instruments are analyzed in misdemeanor cases. Based on submissions, without any oral argument, the New York State Court of Appeals released a one-paragraph memorandum on June 6 ...

A man convicted of fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance will get a new trial because the judge refused to instruct the jury to include the lesser included offense of seventh-degree CPCS. Justice Stephen K. Lindley found that the ...

A man convicted of assault, menacing and unlawful imprisonment has been granted a new trial because he was not present in the courtroom when a prospective juror disclosed important information. Norman I. Geddis, 49, was convicted in May 2017 of ...

An appellate court has reversed a murder conviction after agreeing with the defendant’s lawyer, who argued that her client intentionally killed the victim. Antoine Parris, 38, was convicted in February 2003 of second-degree murder and sentenced to a minimum of ...

The Fourth Department has reserved judgment in an appeal where the case was presented twice to a grand jury and the defendant is questioning whether the prosecution used different evidence each time. Gabriele Ballowe pleaded guilty in December 2016 to ...

An appeals court has vacated a guilty plea in a burglary case because the trial judge failed to address the defendant’s complaints about his appointed attorney. Todd Jones, 21, pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary in November 2014. Monroe County Court ...

The Fourth Department sent a case an appeal of a conviction on a weapon charge back to trial court because the judge failed to address the legality of a search. Robert Green pleaded guilty in February 2015 to second-degree criminal ...

One of three Rochester school district employees suing the district for alleged discrimination has settled her case for $35,000. Kim Nixon, 51, who worked for the district from Sept. 13, 2010, until she was fired on Sept. 30, 2016, signed ...

An appellate court has granted a new trial for a man convicted of attempted murder because the trial judge failed to act on complaints by the defendant about the effectiveness of his attorney. Charquan Edwards, 27, was convicted in Syracuse ...

The key to the longevity for Harter Secrest & Emery LLP has been a concerted effort to maintain the culture and values that have symbolized the firm since it was founded in 1894. “I think we’ve done a very careful ...