A state appeals court has granted a new trial to a man convicted in Staten Island of sex abuse because a barely audible recording was admitted into evidence.
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Two more families have filed lawsuits against the Hilton Central School District and Kirk Ashton, the elementary school principal accused of sexually abusing young boys in his office. Ashton was principal of Northwood Elementary School in the district from 2004 ...
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A former state Supreme Court justice in Rochester has been accused in a lawsuit of forcing a female secretary into sex acts in his office dozens of times.
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A state appeals court has reduced the sentence in a homicide case. Robert D. Brewer, 33, was convicted in September 2015 of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison. The victim was Keith Holloway, the ...
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A state appeals court has vacated a guilty plea in a rape and sex abuse case in Oswego County and suppressed statements made by the defendant to a social worker. Shane E. Desjardins pleaded guilty in state Supreme Court in ...
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Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and her husband, Timothy Granison have been indicted on a weapon charge.
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A state appeals court has reduced the sentence in a homicide case because the trial judge did not properly apply the state’s Domestic Violence Survivor’s Act.
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A state Supreme Court justice in Albany County has denied a request for a gag order sought by a church being sued under the state’s Child Victims Act.
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An Essex County Court judge has dismissed a felony drug charge because the evidence in the case was found during an illegal traffic stop and vehicle search.
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A state appeals court has reversed a weapon conviction because of a change in state law after the trial.
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A state appeals court has granted a new trial in a robbery case because the judge failed to properly vet the defendant’s complaints about his court-appointed lawyer.
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A Monroe County Court surrogate judge has denied a request for thousands of dollars in fees for handling an estate.
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