Everyone in prison claims to be innocent. This is an old saying, and it is true for the most part. Sadly, as technology grows we are finding out, that thousands of convicted prisoners are in fact, innocent. One study shows that as many as 10,000 people are wrongly convicted annua......
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For the past three years, the Patrolman's Benevolent Association has been in a legal saga concerning Local Law 71, which prohibited the police from bias-based profiling. The concern was that Local Law 71 would open police to an avalanche of unreasonable lawsuits, especially......
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Few crimes are more costly, frustrating, and abusiveness to the judicial process than malicious prosecution. Malicious prosecution is when a person files a lawsuit against another person when they have no cause. They are not seeking justice. Their purpose is to drag the person thr......
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When do the police have a right to search you or your property and take possession of items that belong to you? Are they allowed to randomly search your automobile if you are stopped for a traffic violation? Can they enter your home or apartment and arrest you? Can a police abuse......
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As a police abuse law firm in NYC, we can tell you that unlawful or false imprisonment in New York involves detaining or holding another person against their will without legal authorization. False imprisonment happens when a person keeps another person from leaving a vehicle, ho......
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At the police abuse law firm of The Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff has been litigating the case of Fernando Bermudez, a man convicted of a crime he did not commit, for over 6 years. Mr. Bermudez, after years of rigorous appeals, was found to be actually innocent of the......
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In December 2016, the New York State Court of Appeals, this state's highest court, determined that municipalities including New York City can be held liable for traffic accidents and injuries stemming from their failure to improve streets with a history of frequent traffic......
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On Wednesday, January 4th, 2017, a Long Island Rail Road train derailed at the Atlantic Terminal station in Brooklyn during the busy morning rush hour, injuring over 100 commuters. Reminiscent of September's deadly Hoboken Station crash, the train slammed into a bumpe......
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According to University of Baltimore law professor Michael Meyerson, “As you peel the onion of discrimination, you realize how embedded it is in our legal system and our society. ” You might not realize it, or perhaps you've never looked at it this way, but perso......
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New York City motorists no doubt believe that they have more than enough traffic laws to deal with already, but as of November 1, the state of New York now also enforces a “Slow Down to Get Around” law for waste collection and sanitation vehicles. The new requirement......
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