ALBANY — New York’s highest court said police can go too far lying to suspects, making confessions inadmissible as evidence when the lies told during interrogations become “patently coercive.” The Court of Appeals, ruling unanimously, threw out the murder conviction ...

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A Rochester man convicted of beating another man to death is trying to get a new trial because he claims the jury was not told to view the testimony of a key witness skeptically because that witness may have been ...

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A Gates woman videotaped naked while in the upstairs bathroom of her home had a reasonable expectation of privacy from the neighbor who filmed her through a small window in her front door, the state’s highest court finds. The Court ...

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Life and the law meant the world to former Court of Appeals Judge Stewart F. Hancock Jr. of Cazenovia. He embraced both. Even at age 91, he was still trying to help clients. Former Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye said ...

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ALBANY — New York’s highest court upheld the conviction of a suburban Rochester man for videotaping his neighbor after a shower through an exterior window. The Court of Appeals said the 2003 state law against so-called video voyeurism applies to ...

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A Jefferson County man convicted of second-degree attempted murder claims his conviction should be reversed because his trial counsel’s waiver of his right to attend sidebar conferences was not made in his presence or put on the record. Gunther J. ...

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A former Gates man who videotaped his naked female neighbor does not believe his conviction of unlawful surveillance should stand because he claims prosecutors did not prove the elements of the charged crime. Buffalo attorney Timothy P. Murphy, who represents ...

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A medical corporation should not liable for the unauthorized disclosure of medical information by a non-physician employee if they are committed outside the scope of their duties, the state Court of Appeals decided Thursday. Its answer is “no” to a ...

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ALBANY — New York’s highest court said an upstate medical clinic isn’t liable for a nurse revealing a man’s sexually transmitted disease to his girlfriend since it was outside her duties and violated clinic policy. Identified as John Doe in ...

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The state Court of Appeals has accepted a determination by the Commission on Judicial Conduct that Middletown Town Court Justice Glen R. George, Delaware County, should be removed from office. Justice George had dismissed a ticket for a seat belt ...

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A defendant’s description of events involving a rape he was charged with negated one of the elements of the crime and his guilty plea should not have been accepted without further inquiry, the Court of Appeals has ruled. In its ...

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ALBANY — New York’s highest court upheld the murder convictions Thursday of three drivers who caused deadly crashes, rejecting arguments they were too intoxicated to know the threat they posed. Convictions of Martin Heidgen, Taliyah Taylor and Franklin McPherson hinged ...

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