A state appeals court has overturned a homicide conviction in Ontario County and ordered a new trial. Jeffrey A. Salone Jr. was convicted in May 2019 of first-degree manslaughter. Salone was originally charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter. Salone ...

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A state appeals court has overturned a homicide conviction and dismissed the indictment. Defendant John E. Pinnock was convicted in July 2016 of first-degree criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in Ontario County Court. The charges are related to a ...

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A state appeals court has overturned a lower court and reinstated charges against a man who claimed he could not be prosecuted because he was not located by police within the legal time limit. In February 2019, Monroe County Court ...

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A state appeals court has overturned a robbery conviction because the jury verdict was “against the weight of the evidence.” Defendant Anthony Miller was convicted of first-degree robbery in state Supreme Court in Monroe County in January 2015. Miller was ...

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The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, Fourth Department, has reversed a guilty plea and dismissed the charges in a drug case because of an improper traffic stop by Syracuse police. In May 2017, defendant Cristobal Martinez-Gonzalez pleaded guilty to ...

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A state appeals court has reversed a weapon conviction, suppressed the main evidence in the case and dismissed the indictment. In March 2018, a state Supreme Court jury convicted Naiem D. Fitts of two counts of second-degree criminal possession of ...

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A state appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that suppressed physical evidence and statements in a weapon case on the ground that the police acted improperly. In September 2019, in the case of Darnell Allen, Erie County Court ...

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A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit over an injury suffered on an icy surface during a winter storm at a school district in Cattaraugus County. In October 2018 state Supreme Court Judge Jeremiah J. Moriarty III granted a ...

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A state appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling and reinstated a lawsuit over a car crash that happened in Virginia. In April 2019, state Supreme Court Justice Mark J. Grisanti, in Buffalo, granted a defense motion of to ...

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A state appeals court has reduced the sentence imposed for a probation violation in a Yates County case. Defendant Alexandra Griffin was 19 when she pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. She was ...

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  A state appeals court has affirmed a $2.3 million arbitration award to a woman injured in a car accident. In February 2019, state Supreme Court Justice Catherine R. Nugent Panepinto issued a judgment upholding the award and the State ...

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A state appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of a man who claimed a juror was an acquaintance of his mother and may have known information about his criminal past that was not part of the trial evidence. In ...

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