Category: Criminal Defense

Atlanta Police Misconduct Misconduct and Excessive Force Going into law enforcement is no easy task. Police officers and public safety officers alike have important responsibilities to uphold in helping prevent crime and keeping a community secure. In fulfilling these duties, officers are also expected by law to not cause any unnecessary harm to others or…

Clayton Teacher Fired for Allegedly Putting “Hit” on Student The Clayton County school board voted to fire a teacher accused of ordering a “hit” on a student, officials said. In a unanimous vote, the nine-member board decided to uphold the recommendation made in December by a tribunal to terminate the Mundy Mill High School teacher….

Teacher Charged With Sexual Assault Not Guilty in Cobb County According to an article, an uncommon method was used by a judge in Cobb County as he by-passed the jury and issued a directed verdict. Based on the article, a 36-year-old teacher who confessed to having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student was determined…

Brooklyn Hit and Run Critically Injures 2 February 10, 2009 an SUV fled the scene after running down a family crossing the street. Following their mother, Ralph Nicholas was struck as he was holding his sister Sade’s hand at the intersection of Avenue H and Utica Ave in Brooklyn. Sade Nicholas, 11 said, ‘We was…

Bronx Forgery and Abandonment of Five Year Old In a story on March 13, 2009, Paul Casson, 28, an EMT was arrested and charged with forging a nurse’s signature and abandoning a five-year-old at the hospital. A spokeswoman for the Department of Investigation said that Casson did not want to wait and fill out the necessary paperwork…

Bronx First-Degree Manslaughter Charge Against Officer In a story that there is a correction from their original story on March 13, 2009, that Officer Rafael Lora faces a first-degree manslaughter charge in New York for the deadly shooting of Fermin Arzu, 41, in May 2007. According to reports Arzu was driving while intoxicated and hit parked cars outside Lora’s…

New York City controller William Thompson released a report that the city paid out $35.2 million in settlements last year a 40 percent jump from just the previous year. Police procedures, such as false arrests and excessive force, are costing the taxpayers heavily in a time when all efforts and sacrifices must be made to…

Staten Island Attendant Killed, No Witnesses Mohammad Ishfq Ahmad, 50 was shot and killed at a gas and deli station on Staten Island located on Victory Boulevard. Ahmad had moved from Pakistan to the United States in search of a better life. He was shot in the back near the pumps at the Gulf Station…

Drug Felony Convictions Lands Illegal Aliens in Prison for Life A U.S. District judge sentenced defendant Olivar Martinez-Blanco to life in prison without parole on December 9, 2008, on Federal drug felony charges stemming from his role in a massive cocaine distribution conspiracy. Martinez-Blanco is an illegal alien who had been deported twice from the United States…