Trials

Teacher in Queens Sends Graphic Emails to Students: DA

The Schiro Tapes

Adventures in Google's Contextual Advertising

Lawsuit: Columbia Expansion Poses 'Biohazard' Risk

NY's Highest Court Upholds Lesbian Couple's Canadian Marriage

Robbins, Yaeger Earn Top Journalism Honors

The Sean Bell Curveball For Cops on Trial

Prosecutors' 'acting-in-concert' theory in chaotic shooting of Sean Bell misses the mark, observers say

Schwarz Silenced—Vinegrad Caves

Charles Schwarz Has the Edge

New York's Most Obnoxious Lawyer

Do we have to pick just one? Kenny Heller won't admit it, but he could make a case for the title if he hadn't been disbarred—for obnoxious behavior.

Blaming the Bronx D. A.

Al Sharpton Privately Accused Robert Johnson of... "Throwing the Diallo Case"

Will Morgenthau Do Justice?

The First Trial Judge Was Over His Head

‘A New Form of Slavery’

Equal Protection for Whom?

Truth Out

Sick of being lied to by the EPA, 9-11 plaintiffs use the courts to force the answers they seek

Silence of the Lam

Accused of sexually abusing young boys, a Brooklyn rabbi lit for Israel 22 years ago. Now one alleged victim wants him brought back for trial.

A Town Possessed by Satan

'We were a family. Then all of a sudden, there's nobody left.'

The Company He Keeps

Chelsea candidate Chris Lynn's suspect pals

Blowing TAPs

Grand Jury Probes Brooklyn State Supreme Court

Trippin' On A Hooker

Pushcart James Says He Saw a Man Beat a Prostitute Named Pork Chop. Pushcart Is a Dope Fiend. The Alleged John Is a Policeman.

WABC Talk Show Hosts Shamed

Pushcart James Says He Saw a Man Beat a Prostitute Named Pork Chop. Pushcart Is a Dope Fiend. The Alleged John Is a Policeman.

Shake the Trees

After the Latest Police Killing of Another Unarmed Black Man, The Feds Need Little Convincing to Intervene in New York

Queer on Death Row

In Murder Cases, Being Gay Can Seal a Defendant’s Fate

Reversal of Misfortune

The Wrong Charges, the Right Decision

Fork Off

In addition to food fights between the ROC-NY activists and restaurants, some of the activists are throwing rocks at each other

Name That Criminal

In a notorious murder case, Rohan Bolt is doing the time. Did someone else do the crime?

Blood Brothers

Mob mistress Linda Schiro told one murder tale the same way to everyone. Despite the holes in her story.

Scientology's Crushing Defeat

A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check

Tall Tales of a Mafia Mistress

A witness for the prosecution of an ex-FBI agent once told a different story

How the Mob Hoodwinked D.A. Candidate Leslie Crocker Snyder

A witness for the prosecution of an ex-FBI agent once told a different story

Did The Jury Foreman Know the Accused Armed Robber? Charlie Hynes' Office Is On the Case

​Here's another reason why we love the Brooklyn criminal court system: a guy's on trial last month for felony armed robbery. One day, a paralegal for the Brooklyn District Attorney's office wanders into the courtroom to drop off some papers. The robbery defendant, Corey Hinds, she notes, look ... More >>

Former Texas Cop Indicted in New York for Moving 200 Tons of Cocaine

​A leader of a major Mexican drug cartel and former Texas police officer was sentenced in Manhattan federal court yesterday for importing at least 200 tons of cocaine into the United States during a five year period. Between 1994 and 1999, Gilberto Salinas Doria -- formerly Officer Dora of th ... More >>

Crime Beat: SEC Renews Vow to Take Acquitted Bear Stearns Duo Tannin and Cioffi to Civil Court -- Shades of O.J. and Scrushy!

Hedge fun: Matthew Tannin and wife Joyce were all smiles after his acquittal last month on criminal charges. The Bear Stearns hedge funders Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, found not guilty last month of fraud in the only major criminal prosecution even indirectly related to Wall Street's meltdown ... More >>

Crime Beat: SEC Renews Vow to Take Acquitted Bear Stearns Duo Tannin and Cioffi to Civil Court -- Shades of O.J. and Scrushy!

Hedge fun: Matthew Tannin and wife Joyce were all smiles after his acquittal last month on criminal charges. The Bear Stearns hedge funders Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, found not guilty last month of fraud in the only major criminal prosecution even indirectly related to Wall Street's meltdown ... More >>

Patsy's Dishwasher Sues Restaurant Over Dickensian Work Conditions

Trees on the outside, drudgery on the inside.​A former dishwasher at the Patsy's on East 60th Street is suing the restaurant after working there for three years in conditions that his class-action lawsuit claims "can only be described as indentured servitude."

NYPD Quotas leading to Civil Rights Violations, New Lawsuit Says

​The city is facing a new class action lawsuit filed by nine New Yorkers over the NYPD's use of quotas to get officers to issues summonses and stop-and-frisk people, court records show. The lawsuit, filed late last month in federal court in Manhattan, cites some of the quotations which appear ... More >>

Susan Spicer, New Orleans Chef, Sticks It to British Petroleum

​Famed New Orleans chef and cook book author Susan Spicer has filed a class action lawsuit against British Petroleum, Halliburton, and Transocean, Ltd. Entered in New Orleans Federal Court, the suit asks for both compensatory and punitive damages - as yet unspecified -- for the harm that has r ... More >>

Ray 'Stop-and-Frisk' Kelly for Mayor?

When will New Yorkers see past Kelly's personal charm and notice his thuggish methods?

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

Google Will Pay $8.5M to Settle Class-Action Buzz Lawsuit, Just Not to You

​If you use Gmail, you probably received a strange and unexpected e-mail from Google yesterday about Google Buzz and some kind of $8.5 million class-action lawsuit settlement that you really didn't bother to read about because, yeah, Google Buzz was a disaster, but you never signed up to be pa ... More >>

9/11 Workers' Settlement Suit Is Finally Almost Over

​The New York Times is reporting that the 9/11 workers who sued the city over health damages they suffered during Ground Zero rescue and recovery efforts have finally agreed to accept a $625 million settlement from the city after years of negotiations and delays.

NYPD Sodomy Story: Angry Ass-Rapist Cops Strike Yet Again

​Ralph Johnson, a "Wall Street financier," has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD, the AP reports. And if you've been paying attention, Johnson's claims might sound a bit familiar: He says that he, too, was sodomized by NYPD officers using a police baton when they responded to a domestic compla ... More >>

Assange in Court: Sweden Could Mean Guantanamo Bay, or Death

​Julian Assange, the founder and editor-in-chief of secret-spilling international organization WikiLeaks, is in court today for the first of a two-day hearing in England, which will decide whether Assange is extradited to Sweden in order face questions about potential rape charges. Assange, wa ... More >>

NYPD Quotas: Brooklyn Jury Says 'Yes, Virginia, They do Exist'

​A Brooklyn jury yesterday ruled that ticketing and arrest quotas, long denied by the NYPD, do exist, and left a woman in cuffs after trying to stop her son's arrest. In a lawsuit filed by Bedford-Stuyvesant resident Carolyn Bryant, the jury found that the NYPD had a "custom and policy" on a ... More >>

British Court Orders Julian Assange Extradited To Sweden

​A British court ordered on Thursday that Julian Assange be extradited to Sweden to confront accusations that he sexually abused two women. Via the New York Times, Judge Howard Riddle ruled "that allegations brought by two women qualified as extraditable offenses and that the warrant seeking M ... More >>

Vanessa Hicks, Former NYPD Officer, Sues Over Ticket Quota

​A former police officer is suing the NYPD for firing her for not writing enough summonses and not stopping and frisking enough people, the New York Daily News is reporting. Vanessa Hicks' lawsuit follows last year's class action lawsuit filed on behalf of about 25 New Yorkers who allege the ... More >>

Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, NYPD Officers, Found Not Guilty of Rape

Moreno on the stand​There is a verdict in the trial of NYPD officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, who had been accused of raping a 27-year-old East Village woman they were called to help home on a drunken night in 2008. This comes on the seventh day of deliberations. Moreno, 43, and Mata, ... More >>

NYPD Rape Trial Accuser Releases Statement: 'Public Opinion Will Be the Ultimate Verdict'

​The trial of Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, the now-former NYPD cops accused of rape by a fashion executive who lived in the East Village at the time, has been much publicized, and, as such, it's perhaps no surprise that the accuser, who still has a civil suit against the city, has now iss ... More >>

The Innocence Project's Poster Child with a Past

They hailed Alan Newton's exoneration—without mentioning his other case of attempted rape

Franklin Mata and Kenneth Moreno, NYPD Cops Acquitted of Rape, Likely to Have Sentencing Postponed

​Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, the two New York City police officers convicted of official misconduct last month (while being acquitted of the rape of an East Village woman) will likely have their sentencing postponed, the New York Times reports. This is at least partly so that defense law ... More >>

Mata and Moreno's Previous Late-Night Incident

What the jury didn't hear: the recently acquitted NYPD officers had another reported issue with a young woman

Jazz Hayden and the Fight Against Stop-and-Frisk

An unlikely activist's battle with the NYPD's frisky business