Tony Darrow, 72, whose legal name is Anthony Borgese and is best known for his roles in “Goodfellas” and “The Sopranos,” was sentenced to two years probation and six months of house arrest in Brooklyn federal court [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Assemblyman William Boyland, of Brooklyn, was arrested on Tuesday for federal bribery charges.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
A criminologist presented DNA evidence today in the trial of Adam Wright, linking him to the rape of a 12-year-old girl in 2002. The DNA sample provided by Wright, 43, was collected in 2005 in [...]
Thursday, December 16, 2010
By Alysia Santo Attorney John O’Hara, 49, is waging a campaign to expose the treatment that his mentor and friend, Judge John Phillips, endured in the last years of his life. O’Hara is representing Reverend [...]
Saturday, November 27, 2010
“The defendant does not have the burden of proof, it’s the burden of the people to prove that a crime was committed and that I was the one who did it.” So began the defense’s closing arguments in an unusual trial that concluded Monday in Brooklyn Supreme Court. The central figure in the trial, Ned Morrow, was in a dual role: defendant, charged with robbing a McDonald’s in Park Slope and defense attorney representing himself. Presiding Judge Joel Goldberg, in an interview, said self-representation in such a criminal case is “very, very rare” and said it was the first time he was handling such a case in 23 years on the bench. “Usually I manage to talk them out of it,” he said, noting that in most cases “attorneys don’t even represent themselves”. Before allowing self-representation to proceed, Goldberg explained that the court had to ensure that the defendant understood the risks of such a choice. Defendant Morrow was exercising his sixth Amendment right to represent himself, called a “pro se” defense in legal parlance. While he sometimes struggled to reconcile his duties as his own attorney with his personal interest in winning an acquittal, Morrow displayed a good grounding in courtroom conventions that ensured that his performance was far from amateur hour. As for the outcome? Read on.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
By Evan MacDonald Midway through her morning docket, Judge Patricia DiMango was clearly annoyed. She was struggling to make a defendant understand the weapons possession charges he was facing, despite all the explanations she was [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
The trial for Brooklyn’s own alleged Ponzi schemer began yesterday in federal court. Phillip Barry, 53, was charged with losing the savings of dozens of Bay Ridge investors through a fraudulent investment company, reported the [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
By Alex Gecan Bedlam erupted in a Kings County courtroom this afternoon, drowning out the last of three guilty verdicts against Jarelle Washington. Washington’s relatives and friends, some of them too hysterical to be understood, [...]
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Dr. Alexander Bardey, the prosecutions expert witness, disputed earlier testimony made by the defense’s expert witness, Dr. Sanford L. Drob, who said the accused, Teon Brummell, 33, suffered from Extreme Emotional Distress. Brummell is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Natasha Southerland, his girlfriend, on September 20, 2004.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The trial of Teon Brummell, 33, accused of the stabbing murder of his girlfriend, 21-year-old Natasha Southerland, began yesterday.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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