Sometimes due diligence can use an assist from luck. That is what Rochester attorney Lawrence L. Kasperek encountered with a case he initially lost. Kasperek’s indigent client, Raheen M. Gayden, was convicted of second-degree murder, largely based on the testimony ...

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A teenager killed a neighbor in front of her preschooler. A woman was accused of killing her four children when they were babies and a third person killed a young woman during a fight in a drug deal gone wrong. ...

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  Jon M. Stern knows he is relentless in his pursuit of justice for his indigent Family Court clients. He just did not realize how many other people noticed. Stern is the first recipient of the Award for Excellence in ...

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Tickets are on sale for the 2013 Defense Community Dinner on Nov. 9 at Rochester Institute of Technology. Keynote speaker will be Supreme Court Justice Stephen K. Lindley, who sits on the Appellate Division, Fourth Department. Another highlight is the ...

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Assistant Federal Public Defender Anne M. Burger grew up in a household where her father championed the underdog and found it offensive when people were treated unfairly because they lacked money or social status. It is something that still sticks ...

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Tickets are on sale for the 2012 Defense Community Dinner on Oct. 12 at the Rochester Institute of Technology.   The event will begin with cocktails at 4:30 p.m. in the University Gallery Building 7A, Booth Hall. Dinner will be ...

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