On Friday, after a week-long jury trial, Derrick Bovee, 42, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the death of Jerry Mawson. On Oct. 6, 2016, 64-year-old Jerry Mawson was found dead with multiple chop wounds to his head and neck ...

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A state Supreme Court jury on Wednesday convicted Joshua Mencel, 30, of , first-degree coercion, first-degree unlawful imprisonment, third-degree assault, and two counts of first-degree kidnapping, according to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office. Mencel was one of three people ...

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A 33-year-old Buffalo woman has been convicted of fatally stabbing her husband in Rochester in March 2016. Jennifer Pryor was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter Friday in the death of her husband Roger Pryor Jr. The stabbing happened outside of ...

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A state Supreme Court jury convicted 47-year-old Marcus Daniels of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon for possessing an illegal pistol. On Aug. 6, 2016, the Rochester Fire Department was battling a house fire at Central Park and Sixth Street ...

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A former University of Rochester student who was kidnapped and tortured in December 2015 is suing the nine people convicted in the case for $10 million. Nicholas Kollias, 23, who is from Northbrook, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, was a ...

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The Fourth Department has sent a case back to state Supreme Court in Monroe County for a decision on whether the defendant should get youthful offender status. In January 2015, Kevin A. Dukes, 23, pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery, and ...

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Malik Hymes, 25, pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally videotaping a witness during a murder trial. On Nov. 14, Hymes was in the audience during a state Supreme Court trial when he secretly videotaped the testimony of a key witness in an ...

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Electronic filing of most civil court documents with the Monroe County Clerk’s Office is set to begin today. Monroe County Clerk Adam Bello and state Supreme Court Justices Craig Doran and Matthew Rosenbaum announced a partnership with the state Supreme Court’s Seventh ...

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State Supreme Court Justice Craig J. Doran, administrative judge for the Seventh Judicial District, announced the reappointment of the following supervising judges for the Seventh Judicial District. Evelyn Frazee, acting administrative judge John B. Gallagher, supervising judge for the family ...

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An appellate court has granted a new trial in a robbery case because of concerns over whether a juror was impartial. Shearard G. Griffin, 38, was convicted in February 2014 of two counts each of first-degree robbery and second-degree robbery ...

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A man who was illegally in the United States has admitted to causing a fatal motor-vehicle crash on Dec. 24, 2015. Efrain Lopez-Contreras, 30, pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated vehicular homicide, second-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault, and aggravated driving while intoxicated, according to ...

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A Rochester man was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for trying to kill his mother. State Supreme Court Justice Judith Sinclair also sentenced Julian Clinkscales, 31,  to five years of post-release supervision. Clinkscales was convicted Nov. 3 of attempted ...

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