Recent Posts in Appellate Category
Posted on Nov 1, 2011 By Karen
An estimated 2,000 federal inmates will be eligible for release because of changes in the way sentences are calculated for crack cocaine convictions. A law was passed in 2010 that ending the practice ...
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Posted on Aug 18, 2010 By Karen
A man who has tried for years to take back his guilty plea in a notorious child molestation case lost a fight in federal court but won a moral victory when judges ruled that prosecutors should ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2010 By Karen
A Long Island man who was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison for decapitating his stepfather with a samurai sword had his conviction overturned. On Thursday, a state appellate court ruled that ...
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Posted on May 28, 2010 By Karen
DOBBS FERRY - Former NYPD officer Richard DiGuglielmo must return to prison for the shooting death of Charles Campbell outside a Dobbs Ferry delicatessen in 1996 because a state appellate court has ...
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