The Brooklyn Ink

Babel in the Courthouse

By Mariya Karimjee Kings County Supreme Court Judge Joseph McKay rests his head in his hands. Defense attorney Stacey Van Malden argues that her client is having trouble understanding the trial’s proceedings. Yousheng Huang, the [...]

The Fall of the Phillips Empire

By Seth Berkman During his early days at East Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the Bronx in 2005, 81-year-old John Phillips would practice karate moves as other patients sat idly. A former judge in [...]

A Confession Victim’s Brother Did Not Stay to Hear

By Nate Rawlings Diego Sucuzhanay arrived on the first day of the trial of the two men alleged to have murdered his brother only to discover that the case had been moved to a larger [...]

Letter To Rapist Read In Court; He Gets 437 Years

By K. S. Nikhil Kumar The victim had asked to speak to her attacker. She rose and came to the front of Judge Vincent DelGiudice’s Brooklyn courtroom today. The judge was about to pronounce sentence [...]