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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 state’s highest court has ordered a new trial for a Rochester man convicted of attempted murder in 2014. Samuel J. Smith, 29, was convicted of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, and first-degree criminal use of a firearm. The New ...

Note: Friends and colleagues will gather at noon on Friday, June 14, in Courtroom 404 in the Hall of Justice to celebrate Frazee’s retirement. State Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Frazee is retiring after a 39-year law career, including 27 years ...

The final event in a mock trial program sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology is set to take place Saturday. RIT GEAR UP is sponsoring the program for 11th graders from Rochester high schools. GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and ...

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An appellate court has sent a murder case back to the trial judge to hold a hearing on the defendant’s claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. Glenn A. Pendergraph was convicted in November 2006 of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal ...

Eastman Kodak Co. is suing a Chicago printing firm and its owner, claiming the company owes nearly $120,000 due to a breach of the service-agreement contract and also refuses to allow repossession of a high-tech printing device. Kestler Digital and ...

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Drug charges against a Jefferson County man have been dismissed because the prosecution could not validate the existence of an informant who supplied information used to obtain a search warrant. The defendant, Al A. Givans, 37, was convicted in March ...

A judge has sentenced three former Penn State fraternity members to jail in the 2017 death of a pledge, the first defendants ordered to serve time behind bars in a case that rewrote Pennsylvania’s anti-hazing law. Centre County Judge Brian ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Justice Department issued a scathing report on Alabama’s prisons on Wednesday, saying the state is violating the Constitution by failing to protect inmates from violence and sexual abuse and by housing them in unsafe and overcrowded ...