Sentences with phrase «from the defense attorney»

I can already hear the objections from the defense attorney (the church).

In an exclusive interview with NY1's Zack Fink, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said he regrets taking campaign money from defense attorneys with cases before his office.

Paul Sabatino, a former counsel to the Suffolk Legislature and chief deputy county executive who helped craft Suffolk's ethics code, said if Prudenti took money from defense attorneys for use of the Christina Marie, it was improper.

As Vance's campaign contributions have come under scrutiny, state Assemblyman Dan Quart said he's introducing a bill to reign in how much New York prosecutors can accept in donations from defense attorneys.

The main objection from defense attorneys is that the bill doesn't do enough to protect people who are wrongfully accused of crimes.

In many of the convictions, key evidence had been withheld from defense attorneys, according to the District Attorney's office.

Evidence obtained extra-judicially could be withheld from defense attorneys.»

After decades of criticism from defense attorneys and others, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he would push to change New York's «blindfold law,» which allows prosecutors to withhold evidence against a criminal defendant until just before trial.

You need experienced representation from a defense attorney who will even the playing field and will protect your rights throughout the entire process.

A number of judges stayed very late that evening, waiting for a filing from the defense attorney.»

Here is a video from a defense attorney and former California District Attorney giving a good lesson on California self defense laws: California self - defense laws - A former D.A. explains (YouTube).

It is very important that legislators hear from the Defense Attorney Bar both public and private.

For a while, police departments tried to keep the use of cell - site simulators secret from not just the public but also the court system, withholding information from defense attorneys and judges — likely due to non-disclosure agreements with Harris Corporation.

And, like other law enforcement agencies, the Baltimore PD has regularly withheld information about Stingrays from defense attorneys, judges, and the public.

Forensic attorneys have jobs that are very different from defense attorneys.

Not exact matches

Legal experts say a defense attorney's task to convince a jury that a client is legally insane is even more difficult in cases like that of Routh, who confessed to killing the men, apologized to the family and fled from police.

The Committee on Foreign Investments has nine members, including the secretaries of the treasury, state, defense, homeland security, commerce and energy; the attorney general; and representatives from two White House offices (the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy).

The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, ceo of the Anti-Defamation League.

Starbucks said it would develop the curriculum for the training with guidance from experts including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.

High - priced defense attorney Alan Dershowitz was brought in to argue that children would benefit from seeing Kids, but the appeals board upheld the original rating.

Ergo, from a pure legal defense point of view, the Vikings are wise to say nothing and let him go tamp sand (and yes, I'm an attorney so I'm not just talking through my hat).

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Saturday's New York Times business section had an article describing how cash - strapped states and municipalities are renting out advertising space everywhere they can think of, from local jails (a boon for defense attorneys and bail bondsmen) to the... [Continue reading]

Denying the change of venue from New York City to Buffalo was part of a slew of denials in pre-trial motions made by defense attorneys over the last several weeks.

Unlike the cabinet (e.g., Secretary of State, Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, etc.), and the White House Staff (e.g., Chief - of - Staff, Press Secretary, etc.) the office of the Vice President, his term and the requirements for his removal from office are all established explicitly in Article II of the Constitution.

«Perini will simply continue the office's corrupt practices,» said Myers, referring to criticism that Perini used improper wire taps as a former Suffolk prosecutor and as a defense attorney rented a partyboat from a DA bureau chief.

There is no particular reason why a politician shouldn't accept campaign money from his own defense attorney: the CFB manual says nothing about it.

According to a pool report, Caproni, prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office and Silver's defense team conferenced with the juror for over an hour.

[41][42] In May 2012, the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

Afternoon can be tough on prospective jurors, who came back from lunch break to sit and wait for decisions from prosecutors and defense attorneys on who would stay and who would go.

State leaders from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand are reacting positively to the news that a U.S. District Court here in New York is the latest to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA.

«The prosecution says it has a strong case, made stronger yesterday when state Supreme Court Judge John Michalek took a plea deal and admitted to taking bribes from Pigeon,» said Paul Cambria, defense attorney.

Former state Senator Carl Kruger, for example, faced one of the costliest legal battles, and spent $ 1.7 million from his war chest on defense attorneys.

But Percoco's defense attorneys have argued that their client can't be guilty of the alleged bribery by COR or «the theft of honest services» from the public in part because he wasn't a state official at the time he took payments from COR, even if he acted like one.

But usually, the second trial... becomes more difficult for the prosecution because the defense has seen all that the prosecution has,» said E. Stewart Jones, an attorney from Troy who was part of Bruno's 2014 legal team.

Azrack and attorneys in the case avoided a last - minute hitch when prosecutors Wednesday night belatedly turned over to the defense 7,000 pages of text messages extracted from Singh's phone two years ago.

Sen. Mark Grisanti's constituents are upset he's representing (as a defense attorney) an alleged drug dealer they've been trying to remove from their neighborhood for years.

Garcia has a long career as a prosecutor and defense attorney at both the federal and state level, including his recent work on behalf of Republicans in the State Senate as they faced inquiries from the Moreland Commission established by Cuomo.

In the May 12, 2016, article that prompted Bellone to call for Spota's resignation, Newsday reported that sources said wiretaps from the 2008 prosecution of criminal defense attorney Robert Macedonio contained «evidence of a lot of crimes that have not been acted upon» by Spota's office.

She rejected defense attorneys» assertions that Singh told lies as a prosecution witness to save himself from prison.

Mangano's defense attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City, suggested the push to award the jail's bread - and - rolls contract came not from Mangano but from the late Peter Schmitt, then the presiding officer of the legislature.

The defense attorney in 2008 pleaded guilty to a single instance of felony cocaine possession after an investigation of crimes that ranged from money laundering to mortgage fraud to drug distribution.

Wood also tossed out Skelos defense attorney motions to bar wiretap evidence gathered from Dean and Adam's phones, rejected their request for a hearing on whether prosecutors leaked grand jury information, and denied their motion for a more detailed description of the charges.

«This prosecution is a theory in search of a crime,» defense attorneys wrote at the opening of written arguments aimed at wiping out charges that led Democrat Sheldon Silver to step down from his leadership post.

Eric Corngold, now a prominent white collar criminal defense lawyer, served as deputy attorney general for economic justice from 2007 to 2009 when Cuomo was state attorney general.

(WBEN) Frank Miller, the attorney hired by the Buffalo Board of Education to try and help them oust Carl Paladino from the school board, turned the tables at hearings on Paladino's removal during his closing statements on Tuesday, For the past four days, Paladino's defense has argued that the...

On Wednesday and Thursday, defense attorneys hammered Howe for his years of misdeeds, including for embezzlement committed against his former employers, the Albany - based law and legal firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, to stiffing a long list of creditors ranging from lawyers and home contractors to a health club and even his family's dog walker.

Like all the rest of New York state's 62 district attorneys, Manhattan DA Cy Vance has long taken advantage of surprisingly lax campaign - finance laws to rake in thousands from criminal - defense...

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. on Monday said his office will ban campaign contributions from criminal defense lawyers with clients before his office after taking heat for not pursuing...

Defense attorney Joseph Terranova put only one witness on the stand, a doctor who said the 8 - year - old died from a rare heart disease.