Sep 15, 2015
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. –- A Staten Island justice on Tuesday convicted Alsu Ivanchenko of animal-cruelty charges for badly injuring her tiny 3-month-old puppy last year and tossing the animal away in a bag by the railroad tracks in her community. In a case that galvanized animal-rights activists, state Supreme Court Justice William E. Garnett
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Nov 10, 2014
Often, a client of potential police misconduct will have been arrested on the basis of an allegation made by a civilian, not a police officer (e.g., a claim of assault that the police did not witness). In these instances, it cannot be argued that the police fabricated the evidence against the client, since the allegations, right or wrong, were
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Oct 21, 2014
On occasion, the practitioner represents a client who suffered a brain injury which has impacted the client’s ability to recount the events of an accident. This may create difficulty in proving your case through direct testimony and/or evidence. Please take solace in the fact that: (i) you can use circumstantial evidence to prove your case; and,
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Oct 20, 2014
Newsday: Doctor Acquitted at Federal Trial in $275m Insurance Fraud; Trial Co-Counsel: Matthew Myers Joseph Vitoulis, a doctor from Valley Stream named in a widely publicized 2012 indictment about a $275 million scheme to defraud no-fault auto insurers, has been acquitted of all charges in federal court in Manhattan. Vitoulis, 44, was accused
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Oct 20, 2014
Pot dealer who shot at cops near Manhattan housing project Luis Martinez, 26, faces 25 years to life for firing three times at cops during the February 2012 shootout with uniformed cops near the Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side. BY BARBARA ROSS , SHAYNA JACOBS NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, January 31, 2014 JEFFERSON SIEGEL/NEW YORK
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