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In a 4-3 split decision, New York state’s highest court has vacated a sentence because the judge used information that should not have been unsealed. New York State Court of Appeals Judges Jenny Rivera, Leslie Stein, Eugene M. Fahey, and ...

Jody E. Briandi has been named managing partner of the Buffalo-based law firm Hurwitz & Fine P.C., as of May 1. “I am honored to take on the role of managing partner and fortunate to be supported by an outstanding ...

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A Yates County man who is a former substitute teacher was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison and five years of post-release supervision. Jeffrey Maciejewski, 26, of Penn Yan, was convicted of possession of child pornography involving prepubescent ...

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A Rochester man has admitted to bank robbery and escaping from law enforcement officials. Michael Matzen, 39, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Thursday to escaping from federal custody and to two counts of bank robbery, according to the U.S. ...

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Frederick Bohn, 39, pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree manslaughter for the death of his 86-year-old aunt, Ingeborg Morley. Bohn will be sentenced to 20 years in state prison and five years of post-release supervision under the terms of the plea ...

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A state appellate court ruled that the judge in a drug case in Buffalo should have suppressed some evidence because it was illegally obtained by police, but the conviction was upheld because the overall evidence against the defendant was so ...

WASHINGTON — For a Supreme Court that says it has an allergy to politics, the next few months might require a lot of tissues. The court is poised to issue campaign-season decisions in the full bloom of spring in cases ...

WASHINGTON — Trump loyalist Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison, following an extraordinary move by Attorney General William Barr to back off his Justice Department’s original sentencing recommendation. U.S. District Court Judge Amy ...

A Greece man has been arrested on charges that he threatened to kill  Congressman Adam Schiff and U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. Salvatore Lippa II, 57, was arrested Wednesday and charged with threatening to assault and murder a federal official on ...

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A Rochester woman has been convicted of first-degree manslaughter for a fatal shooting. On Wednesday, Martha Jones, 29, was found guilty in the death of Micah Welch, according the Monroe County District Attorney’s office. On July 10, Welch was shot ...

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A state appeals court has reduced a 50-years-to-life sentence for a man convicted of attempted second-degree burglary and eight counts of second-degree burglary and attempted second-degree burglary. The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, Fourth Department ruled that the sentence ...

EASTHAM, Mass. — The notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking, then spent 16 years on the lam after he was tipped to his ...