Sentences with phrase «indictment against the officer»
Cuomo himself in recent days has called for a series of criminal justice reforms as well as new police training following a Staten Island grand jury not issuing an indictment against Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.
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Since being given authority in certain police fatal shootings, Schneiderman has declined to take over several cases, but he recently won an indictment against an off - duty officer who shot and killed a motorist during a so - called «road rage» case.
The Grahama decision comes amid heightened concerns over the policing in the United State, the interactions between police and minorities and whether local elected district attorneys are able to pursue indictments against police officers in such incidents.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday revealed indictments against 20 alleged members and associates of a Troy - based gang (including an ex-Watervliet police officer) on charges they operated a high - volume drug trafficking ring.
When a Staten Island grand jury refused to return a criminal indictment of an officer in the death of Eric Garner, she issued a press release declaring «the use of excessive and lethal force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide.»
Kenneth Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, solemnly unveiled a six - count indictment this afternoon against the NYPD officer who shot and killed Akai Gurley, striving to show the public his office was not pressured by the police protests that have roiled the city and nation over the last year.
BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn judge refused to toss out the indictment against rookie NYPD Officer Peter Liang, who is accused of fatally shooting Akai Gurley in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project last November.
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, who unsuccessfully sought an indictment last year against a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, expressed pity for the grand jury involved in the case in his first radio interview since becoming the official GOP nominee to replace former Congressman Michael Grimm.
Following the Garner grand jury decision, Cuomo said that he, «like many Americans,» was surprised that no indictment was leveled against Officer Daniel Pantaleo, especially since there was a powerful video that captured Pantaleo putting an arm around the Staten Islander's neck as Pantaleo and other officers wrestled him to the ground.
Councilwoman Debi Rose, a Staten Island Democrat, said tonight she was «profoundly disappointed» that a grand jury decided not to bring an indictment against the police officer who placed Eric Garner in the chokehold that many say led to his death.
The original manslaughter indictment against Haste was dismissed in May by Supreme Court Justice Steven L. Barrett, who ruled that prosecutors from the office of Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson erred when they instructed the grand jury that it did not have to consider communications other officers gave Haste that Graham, 18, had a gun.
An officer of a corporation can not refuse to produce documents of a corporation on the ground that they would incriminate him simply because he himself wrote or signed them, and this even if indictments are pending against him.
The Justice Department announced indictments Thursday against seven people, including a Chicago police officer, who allegedly committed mortgage fraud involving Chicago condominium buildings between 2006 and 2008.