Sentences with phrase «first as a prosecutor»

During his more than four decades in government, Commissioner Scoppetta put his remarkable intelligence and his considerable managerial and leadership experience to work on behalf of the people of this City, first as a prosecutor and then as a deputy mayor and later as the Commissioner who brought much needed reform to the Administration for Children's Services.

I have worked in the New York criminal justice system for more than 34 years, first as a prosecutor and then as a criminal defense trial lawyer.

Ms. Kinaga began her legal career at the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, where she gained considerable first chair trial experience, first as a prosecutor specializing in domestic violence and child abuse cases, then as a civil trial attorney in the Employee Relations Section.

After practicing successfully, first as a prosecutor and then a civil litigator in private practice, in February 2007, Ms. Rodriguez started her own successful litigation law firm in New York City, http://crodriguezlaw.com/.

Not exact matches

Elizabeth Escalona, 23, was in a Dallas County, Texas, court Monday as witnesses - including her mother and the pediatrician who cared for the toddler - testified in the first day of her sentencing hearing, while prosecutors showed pictures of the little girl's hands and bruised body and forehead.

Pre-trial intervention is not unusual for first - time and non-violent offenders — with good representation, anyway — and can be compared to deferred prosecution, as both paths allow those accused of crimes to pay lesser penalties and avoid convictions and incarceration while satisfying other conditions asked for by prosecutors and set by courts.

Disgraced former Downtown power broker Sheldon Silver endured his first day back in court on Monday, as prosecutors try to convince a second jury of the former Assembly Speaker's quid - pro-quo corruption scheme after a prior conviction was thrown out on appeal.

DOWNTOWN — Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo and his successor as attorney general Eric Schneiderman are planning a comprehensive ethics reform agenda that will likely include an independent ethics watchdog and an independent prosecutor, Cuomo said after the pair's first official meeting Friday.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) put out a call for résumés Wednesday as a first step in the process to appoint a new top prosecutor.

Steve Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who served Cuomo as attorney general and during his first year as governor, doesn't expect major news out of the trial for Cuomo, noting that the media and court filings have already aired the case.

Schneiderman's departure has already opened the door for a woman to serve as the state's top prosecutor for the first time.

Also Wednesday, jurors for the first time heard the voice of Venditto in the court proceeding when prosecutors entered as evidence an October 2016 video of him presiding over a town board meeting.

Clinton, appearing with Nassau Democrats in Elmont at a rally to support his wife Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, cited Kaminsky's six years as a federal prosecutor and his work during his first term in the assembly.

For prosecutors, retrying a case — recompiling witnesses and exhibits, reviewing old jury arguments — often does not have the same spark as the first time.

The first plays to the Republican's experience as a former federal prosecutor, as Katko dealt with border issues while working in El Paso.

«When I first ran for Congress, I left a 20 - year career as a federal prosecutor because I was frustrated with the inaction in Washington and knew that if I wanted to see real change for my children and for future generations that I needed to get off the sidelines and do something about it.

When defense lawyer Daniel Gitner first challenged his $ 600 - a-night Waldorf stay while meeting with prosecutors in 2016 as an example of extravagant spending despite his agreement to pay restitution, Howe first brushed it off, saying he had gotten a «deal» and only paid a couple hundred dollars.

He become the first African - American to serve as Brooklyn's chief prosecutor after ousting longtime incumbent Charles Hynes in a primary.

Coffey was also the first Democrat to slam the lone GOP AG candidate, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, saying the state doesn't need a «super DA» as its top prosecutor.

Rice enrolled as a Republican when she first registered to vote (she has said that everyone in Nassau County defaulted to GOP, since the party controlled the local government), and then switched that to independent when she became a federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania.

Among the first people who made into this list (as was admitted) were the judges and prosecutors of the trial over Khodorkovsky, a Russian businessman who was accused in illegal privatization, tax evasion and murdering people via his security service.

If he did run, under the law he would first have to step down from his job as a federal prosecutor.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- WBEN sat down with Erie County District Attorney John Flynn to recap the highlights and lowlights of his first year as the county's top prosecutor.

The mailer from McGrath comes after Kaminsky released his first TV ad of the campaign, which focuses heavily on ethics and fighting government corruption in pointing to the candidate's resume as a federal prosecutor.

But Bharara in an interview with WAMC's Alan Chartock indicated — at first lightly and later more seriously — that he wants to stay in his job as the prosecutor of the Southern District of New York, arguably one of the most high - profile posts in the U.S. Department of Justice.

At the end of their first week of witnesses, federal prosecutors sought to refocus attention on Silver as they continued to create a portrait of a powerful political figure whose greed they allege led to multiple corruption schemes.

Either way, his description of Kaminsky as an «excellent assemblyman» contradicts the Senate GOP message that the first - term lawmaker and former federal prosecutor hasn't accomplished anything during his time in Albany.

Dr. Robert Taub convinced mesothelioma patient Catharine O'Leary to seek legal representation through Silver in 2003 by bad - mouthing her first lawyer, John Dearie, as «no good,» an email shown by prosecutors revealed.

(She switched her enrollment to blank when she went to work as a federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania, and then became a Democrat in 2005 — right before her first campaign in Nassau County).

It also came as Schneiderman opens his first case under the new special prosecutor powers in the death of Raynette Turner, who died in Mount Vernon police custody last month.

Katko's first ad, «Courage,» highlights his career as a federal prosecutor.

On the campaign trail, Katko's career as a federal prosecutor is a main theme throughout his first television ad.

Philadelphia's former Democratic district attorney, Seth Williams, whose tenure as the city's first black top prosecutor was mired in corruption, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 months in prison for accepting a bribe.

Katko's first ad focuses on his career as a federal prosecutor.

The first ad attacks Maffei, D - Syracuse, and highlights Katko's career as a federal prosecutor.

Schneiderman Special Prosecutor Case: Earlier this week Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that his first case as special prosecutor in police involved deaths of unarmed civilians would investigate the circumstances surrounding Raynette Turner's death.

A special counsel to Cuomo as attorney general, she is a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan, former first deputy commissioner in New York City's Department of Investigation and was first deputy district attorney in Westchester County.

That case — one of his very first as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan — foreshadowed a theme that Mr. Bharara harped on throughout his tenure pursuing a host of public corruption, terrorism, civil rights and Wall Street cases: Politics and prosecution do not mix.

A day after activists and the families of civilians killed by police demonstrated outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Midtown office, they joined him at John Jay College as he signed an executive order making Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases statewide in which an officer is responsible for a civilian's death — making New York the first state to create such a role to oversee the controversial issue of police - involved homicides.

Many of the new SNP intake are women with impressive hinterlands: Jo Cherry, a highly regarded QC, spent time as one of Scotland's first specialist sex crimes prosecutors and the multifaceted Tasmina Ahmed - Sheikh is a lawyer, businesswoman and a popular screen actor on the Asian subcontinent.

Federal prosecutors said it was the first criminal case involving this new form of spam — known as «spim.»

Byrne was a crusading prosecutor who served two terms as New Jersey governor and enacted the state's first income tax.

2018-04-07 11:38 Byrne was a crusading prosecutor who served two terms as New Jersey governor and enacted the state's first income tax.

A united front emphasizing the power of manga as art is the only way to raise the consciousness of police and prosecutors enough to stop attacking manga in the first place.

Abookire said Abraham, as district attorney, appointed Philadelphia's first prosecutor devoted to animal cruelty cases.

His decision provoked an angry backlash of editorials and newspaper articles claiming preferential treatment by one prosecutor for another — editorials and articles that named me publicly for the first time as the person involved.

The firm: Established in 1903 by John Wallace de Beque Farris, Vancouver's first city prosecutor who went on to act as B.C.'s attorney general and as a senator.

But would the barely trained criminal defense lawyer have the competence of one who first works as a public defender or prosecutor?

Attorney Robert G. Whittel first began practicing law for a large international law firm and was later appointed as a criminal prosecutor.

You've got a younger person, a First Nations woman with a lot of experience in the criminal justice system as a prosecutor,» he adds.