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By Robert E. Kessler – STAFF WRITERNEWSDAY The very bad news recently for [Defendant], a Long Island City millionaire, was that a federal judge ruled that he had murdered his wife in Hicksville in 1999. The good news at the same time for [Defendant] was that the judge also decided that the jury hearing the […]
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION This pamphlet, which is based on New York law, is intended to inform, not to advise. No one should attempt to interpret or apply any law without the aid of an attorney. Produced by the New York State Bar Association Committee on Public Relations. Do I need a lawyer? I […]
By Robert E. Kessler. STAFF WRITER A Long Island City man who was charged with defrauding his estranged wife before she was found murdered in January in her Hicksville home was named as “the prime suspect” in her murder yesterday by a federal prosecutor. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Brown said that [Defendant], 62, of 43-20 […]
By Robert E. Kessler. STAFF WRITER A Queens man, whose estranged wife was found murdered in her Hicksville home in January, was arrested yesterday by federal agents in connection with a scheme to defraud her of her share of their more than $1 million in joint assets. An arrest warrant by federal postal inspector Carl […]
By Pete Donohue A heroic but troubled Vietnam veteran who surrendered to authorities after nearly a decade on the lam pleaded guilty yesterday to burglary-related charges in a bid to face his future with a clean slate. Because of the plea to the misdemeanor charges, prosecutors said, [Defendant] will be able to return to his […]
Mount Vernon Argus Gannett Suburban Newspapers By Bruce Golding A young man who fatally stabbed a fellow student inside Mount Vernon High School was spared any prison time yesterday by a merciful judge who said it was clear the killing was provoked. But the judge’s leniency prompted anguish from the victim’s mother and outrage from […]
By MONTE WILLIAMS A former Mount Vernon High school student convicted of stabbing a classmate to death inside the school in 1994 was sentenced today to five years of probation. The Westchester County District Attorney immediately protested the sentence. “When a jury convicts someone of manslaughter, of killing a 17-year-old student in high school, he […]
The Reporter Dispatch Gannett Suburban Newspaper By Will David A Mount Vernon High School student who was fatally stabbed in October 1994 in the school’s halls was responsible for his own death because he was a member of a “posse” that attacked the student who killed him, a defense attorney told a jury yesterday. The […]
The Morning Call Allentown/Lehigh and Berks By Debbie Garlicki A Pentecostal minister from New York who participated in a riot at Dorney Park in 1992 will serve three months in the Lehigh County Prison’s work-release center. Judge James Knoll Gardner rejected defense pleas for probation for the [Defendant]. Gardner also denied requests to allow the […]
Mount Vernon Argus Gannett Suburban Newspapers By Will David A Mount Vernon High School student charged in the stabbing death of another student acted in self-defense, his lawyer said yesterday. Queens lawyer Todd Greenberg said [Defendant], 17, feared for his life when [Deceased], 17, was stabbed in a school hallway on Monday morning because moments before he […]
By Jacques Steinberg MOUNT VERNON, N.Y., Oct. 25 – A lawyer for the 17-year-old student charged with fatally stabbing another student at Mount Vernon High School on Monday said today that his client had acted in self-defense after being attacked by the victim and several other students in a hallway. But the Mount Vernon Police […]
January 30, 1994By Bruce Lambert The Maze — and shock over a killing there more than a year ago — refuse to go away. For years the zigzag passageway between warehouses on 74th Street near 52d Court in Maspeth has had an exciting, forbidden appeal to youngsters, who used it as a hangout, a hideaway […]
New York NewsdayBy Graham Rayman A Queens jury has acquitted the Maspeth teenager accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in a graffiti-covered warren of alleys in Elmhurst called “the Maze.” After a five-week trial, the jury Wednesday evening found [Defendant], 17, of Maspeth not guilty in the Dec. 6, 1992, slaying of [Deceased] […]
By Blanca M. Quintanilla A Queens teenager accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in an Elmhurst hangout known as “The Maze” was acquitted of murder charges last night. [Defendant], 17, of Maspeth, lowered his head and cried softly when the jury’s verdict was announced. His family and friends in the courtroom embraced and […]
By Janet Tarpey The fate of the Queens College student accused for stabbing 16-year-old [Deceased] to death in “the Maze,” now lies in the hands of six men and six women. Jury deliberations began last Monday night, bringing the two-month long trial nearer to an end. At press time, the jury was still out. In […]
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