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A state Supreme Court justice in the Bronx has dismissed a gun case because the prosecution failed to declare readiness for trial within the proper timeframe.

Tagged with: Speedy trial State Supreme Court

U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr. said he has notified President Joe Biden that he intends to assume senior judge status.

Tagged with: Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday for a man on Arizona’s death row who wants a new sentencing hearing because jurors in his case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence ...

The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of a lawsuit trying to hold social media companies responsible for a terrorist attack at a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people. During arguments at the high court several justices underscored that there was ...

A former Schenectady jail guard who beat and seriously injured a detainee has been sentenced to six months behind bars, to the dismay of prosecutors who sought a stiffer sentence. Eugene Sellie pleaded guilty to felony assault and misdemeanor official ...

A New York appeals court has sent a case back to the lower court because the judge never ruled on a defense motion.

Tagged with: Fourth Department

WASHINGTON (AP) — Islamic State gunmen killed American college student Nohemi Gonzalez as she sat with friends in a Paris bistro in 2015, one of several attacks on a Friday night in the French capital that left 130 people dead. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet by shielding Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their ...

Current and upcoming felony trials: The trial of Adriel Riley continues with Assistant District Attorney Rachel Clark, and ADA Matthew Schiano. Riley is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, fourth-degree arson, and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon for ...

Tagged with: Monroe County District Attorney

A New York appeals court has ordered a new trial in an assault and robbery case because the defendant’s post-arrest statement was improperly used by the prosecutor.

Tagged with: first department

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will not hear arguments as planned March 1 in a case involving a Trump-era immigration policy used several millions of times over the past three years to quickly turn away migrants at ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge showed growing impatience Thursday with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s use of the internet while on bail, suggesting that incarceration might eventually be the most effective way to prevent him from communicating on electronic ...