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ALBANY — The New York Senate on Monday confirmed former U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia to the state’s highest court. Garcia, partner at a New York City law firm, was the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan from 2005 to 2008. He’s ...

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Dozens of judges across New York state were recently certified to stay on the bench past the age of 70. Most judges in the state must retire at the end of the year in which they turn 70. But Court ...

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The U. S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the 2013 convictions and sentence of the Tonawanda Coke Corp. for environmental pollution. Tonawanda Coke was convicted of 11 counts of ...

The office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced the appointment of the Hon. Gerald J. Whalen as Presiding Justice for the Appellate Division, Fourth Department. He replaces Justice Henry Scudder, who has reached mandatory retirement age. Justice Whalen was ...

For attorney Jeremy Peterman, People v Mark A. Smith was his first criminal case. But he was more than an appeals lawyer for his pro bono client. After winning his appeal, Peterman turned into Santa Claus. He got Smith out ...

NEW YORK — Fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel have asked a state court to allow them to continue operating in New York as they appeal a lower court judge’s order to stop. In court papers filed Monday in the ...

NEW ORLEANS — A man who appealed his fourth “fourth-offense” drunken driving conviction on the grounds that he was too intoxicated to understand the consequences of apologizing has not only lost his appeal, but a chance at parole or probation. ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the conviction and sentence in the case of a woman who bought the guns used by her former neighbor to kill a Webster police lieutenant and a West Webster ...

WASHINGTON — The United States Supreme Court on Monday sided with a lesbian mother who wants to see her adopted children, blocking, at least temporarily, an Alabama court’s order that declared the adoption invalid. The justices issued an order in ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether states can criminalize a driver’s refusal to take an alcohol test even if police have not obtained a search warrant. The justices on Friday agreed to hear three cases challenging laws in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A man vying to overturn his conviction in a notorious 1980s child molestation case is not entitled to “every single piece of paper” in his criminal file, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday, reversing a lower ...

NEW YORK — A federal appeals court ordered a new trial Tuesday for a former securities trader in Connecticut who was sentenced to two years in prison for allegedly defrauding the government bailout program. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of ...