Two Queens men who each served around three decades in prison are asking a judge to toss their conviction after they uncovered new evidence that they say proves their innocence.
Read MoreA bill passed by the state legislature on Tuesday offers a small first step into shedding light on how judges make important decisions that affect every day New Yorkers.
Read MoreThe founder and longtime executive director of Brooklyn Defender Services, the city’s second-largest public defense firm, will retire at the end of the year.
Read MoreQueens residents brought one of the city’s most notorious landlords to court on Monday after they said over 350 violations plaguing their building had gone unaddressed for years.
Read MoreAfter serving 26 years in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit, Michael Robinson was back in a Queens courtroom Thursday, facing a retrial around half a decade after new DNA evidence unraveled his original conviction.
Read MoreA bill that would create a formal process for long-time incarcerated individuals to get a judge to reconsider their sentence was passed by a key Senate committee last month, creating the first real opportunity in years for the bill to become law.
Read MoreThe fight over age limits for judges reached New York’s highest court last week, in a case that could have lasting implications for who can hold a seat on the bench.
Read MoreA New York law firm accused of scamming tenants facing eviction out of more than $170,000 while failing to provide legal representation will shut down after reaching a deal with the state attorney general, who uncovered the alleged fraud during a recent investigation.
Read MoreWith just over a month until their contract expires, labor talks at Brooklyn Defender Services have stalled, prompting union attorneys to accuse management of bad-faith bargaining and raise the possibility of a strike.
Read MorePeek behind the curtain of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, whose work recently led to the arrest of a former judge from Brooklyn.
Read MoreA coalition of legal aid organizations are demanding the city and state launch an investigation after a woman gave birth inside a Brooklyn criminal courtroom, calling the incident “a profound moral failure” of the justice system.
Read MoreThe state’s top court concluded cases at a faster rate in 2025, continuing a trend that has begun to emerge under Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, according to a new report.
Read MoreWhile an expansion of the state’s prison oversight agency went into effect over the weekend, the agency cannot function until the governor and legislature appoint new board members, advocates warned this week.
Read MoreTop judges from Queens and the city’s other four boroughs came together on Monday afternoon to celebrate the court’s most highly visible workers, the court officers of the Unified Court System
Read MoreLegal Aid Society offices across all five boroughs faced a new push from labor organizations to increase their workers’ salaries, this time with non-attorneys leading the picket lines.
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