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In a split decision, a state appeals court has upheld a weapon conviction. Defendant Jerel W. Addison, 46, was convicted in state Supreme Court in Rochester in June 2017 of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Addison and a co-defendant ...

Tagged with: Fourth Department

NEW YORK (AP) — Prospective jurors got their first glimpse of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls and women,  when a judge began questioning them individually Tuesday. Wearing a black suit, Maxwell hugged ...

ALBANY (AP) — Members of New York’s ethics commission voted overwhelmingly to rescind approval of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $5.1 million book deal Tuesday. The committee’s vote comes over a year since the October 2020 publication of Cuomo’s book “American ...

Daniel Goldman, the former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to House Democrats in the first impeachment inquiry against former president Donald Trump, said he will run for attorney general of New York.

NEW ORLEANS — In recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free after Supreme Court decisions ruling that young people are capable ...

A New York appeals court has sent a drug case back to the trial court because of possible improper juror conduct.

Tagged with: Fourth Department

WASHINGTON — More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking cash to smuggle drugs ...

NEW YORK — After disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide behind bars, a judge invited his accusers to court to vent their anger at a man they called a coward for taking his own life to escape accountability for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Law professor Zephyr Teachout, who lost the 2018 Democratic primary for New York state attorney general to Letitia James, announced Monday that she will seek the nomination again next year. “My name is Zephyr Teachout, and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away appeals from Volkswagen that sought to stop state and local lawsuits related to the 2015 scandal in which the automaker was found to have rigged its vehicles to cheat U.S. ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only” railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation ...

A state appeals court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of murder because of a Sixth Amendment violation. Defendant Troy Lockley, 47, was convicted in state Supreme Court in Queens in June 2014 of two counts of ...

Tagged with: Second Department Sixth Amendment