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By Wendy Lin The convictions of three men found guilty of second-degree riot in the Howard Beach racial incident have been overturned by an appeals court, according to a decision published yesterday. [Defendant], [Defendant], and [Defendant] were found guilty by a Queens jury last year of being part of the gang of white youths that […]
By Wendy Lin An attorney for one of the youths charged in the Howard Beach racial attack asked yesterday that the case against his client be dismissed because the prosecution “can cause him very severe problems.” Todd Greenberg, attorney for 17-year-old [Defendant], told State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Demakos that the youth is still recovering […]
On May 18 th, 2012, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida dismissed a 15 Count Indictment against Attorney Todd Greenberg’ s client which charged her with Importation and Distribution of Counterfeit Goods including baseball hats, toothpaste, clothing and various other items. Criminal Defense Attorney Todd Greenberg maintained that his client had no […]
On April 5th, 2011, the Appellate Division, Second Department, reversed the Forcible Touching conviction of a Winthrop University Hospital Technician. After a Jury Trial, the Defendant was convicted of Forcible Touching, but the Jury could not reach a decision on several Felony charges concerning three complainants. At a second Trial on the Felony charges, the […]
Timothy Grimes, one of three black victims in the Howard Beach racial attack, exploded in anger yesterday while testifying against five white teenagers in the case, just as he did in another trial last fall. Grimes, testifying despite concerns over his emotional stability, spat at defense attorney Todd Greenberg, muttered an obscenity and swatted a […]
By Wendy Lin Howard Beach attack victim Cedric Sandiford returned to the witness stand yesterday and admitted he had mainlined heroin and cocaine, and that he was too ashamed to admit it under oath last week. “I lied,” Sandiford told jurors in State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens, Queens. “I lied because I was ashamed. […]
By Wendy Lin The December, 1986, attack on three black men in Howard Beach was “a race riot in every ugly sense of the word,” a prosecutor charged yesterday in opening statements at the second trial in the case. Five Howard Beach residents are on trial in State Supreme Court in Queens on charges of […]
By Mike McAlary and Marianne Arneberg. Wendy Lin also contributed to this story. It was a Saturday, Jan. 17, when special state prosecutor Charles J. Hynes received two telephone calls. Two youths suspected of wrongdoing in the racially motivated killing of a black man in Howard Beach wanted to talk. That afternoon, 17-year-old [Defendant] limped […]
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