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Finger Lakes area residents will soon start to see the impact of the $500 million in state funding awarded to the region in December. “You will see concrete plans tied to the URI (Upstate Revitalization Initiative) money being announced very ...

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Two of 10 defendants charged with federal crimes committed as part of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court. Robert W. “Bugsy” Moran Jr., 63, of Rochester, sergeant at arms and a vice president in ...

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WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. will tell a federal judge this week in legal papers that its fight with the FBI over accessing a locked and encrypted iPhone should be kicked to Congress, rather than decided by courts, The Associated Press ...

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State Senator Joe Robach, left, wearing a pink necktie with stripes, and Gates Supervisor Mark Assini, to his left, listen to Chili Supervisor David Dunning give his state-of-the-town speech Tuesday at the Holiday Inn Airport on Brooks Ave. After Dunning, ...

State Supreme Court Justice Francis A. Affronti has granted a hearing for a convicted killer to present new evidence that someone else actually committed the crime. Jose Torres, 49, was convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 for the July 4, ...

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A state lawmaker from Queens wants police in New York to use a new set of simplified Miranda warnings with suspects under 18. The commonly-used Miranda warnings now used by police are written at a 10th-grade reading level, said state ...

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Curtis Johnson, chairman of the Monroe County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section, with Jane Marie Brown (left), a law clerk in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York, and Chloe Krouse, also a law clerk for the ...

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Apparently, a full-time judge somewhere in New York state wanted to play in the World Series of Poker in Nevada, but a group of legal experts don’t think it’s such a good idea. According to an opinion posted online in ...

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A recent decision by the state Court of Appeals could change the way some prosecutors get ready for trial. Until now, a prosecutor could show a witness a picture of a defendant shortly before testifying. Usually the practice has not ...

Tagged with: barry kamins geoffrey kaeuper michael tantillo New York State Court of Appeals

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced 10 appointments to fill vacancies in all four departments of the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court. “Each of these individuals brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the state’s Appellate Division,” Cuomo ...

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A man in prison for a 2001 murder claims he should be freed because of new evidence that someone else committed the crime. Jose Torres, 49, was convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 for the July 4, 2001, fatal shooting ...

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposals to change the age of criminal responsibility and reform the bail system are being welcomed as overdue. “The concern that many in the criminal justice system have is that minors do a lot of foolish things ...