The fight over a law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails continued on Thursday when the City Council opened the door to taking legal action against the Adams administration, which asked a judge last month to allow them to skirt the law’s implementation.
Read MoreThe number of detainees who have had to wait three years or longer on Rikers Island while their cases sluggishly make their way through the court system has increased by nearly 180 percent in the last half decade, according to a new report.
Read MoreNearly a fifth of all Queens residents behind bars in New York are 55 years or older – and despite being convicted at a far younger age, have few opportunities to advocate for their release, according to new data shared with the Eagle.
Read MoreBoth houses of the legislature took major steps this week toward approving legislation from a Queens lawmaker that would increase the amount of student loan forgiveness public interest attorneys who are saddled with debt from law school could receive from the state.
Read MoreGovernor Kathy Hochul on Wednesday renewed her call for increased enforcement against illegal cannabis shops and announced steps to broaden the state’s enforcement through a proposal first introduced through her state budget plan last month.
Read MoreLawmakers last week introduced a bill that would eliminate the mandatory retirement age for a group of judges in New York.
Read MoreAdvocates joined a handful of lawmakers in Albany on Monday to again call on the legislature and the governor to include a bill known as the End Predatory Court Fees Act.
Read MoreThe Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt by Queens prosecutors to overturn a ruling made by a mid-level court earlier this year that found that a local man had been wrongfully convicted of a Bayside murder three decades ago.
Read MoreFor the first time in decades, attorneys who represent indigent clients and children on the state’s dime have been given a pay raise.
Read MoreFour of the city’s five borough presidents, including Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, said in an open letter this week that the city must do more to fund its Right to Counsel program.
Read More“The Asian American legal community and judicial community has work to do to get our footing in the judiciary.”
Read MoreThe historically long 12-week Queens murder trial that wrapped six-years after the killing is now, finally finished after sentencing on Wednesday. Judge Ira Margulis sentenced both defendants, Shakim Allen and Dreshaun Smith, both 29-years-old and from Jamaica, to 50 years in prison for the 2017 murder of Rocky Kalisaran and the wounding of his brother Sonny – which was the first homicide of that year.
Read MoreA Queens lawmaker is pushing a piece of legislation that would make it easier for class action lawsuits to be brought against New York’s state and local governments.
Read MoreMost officials agree – in order for the legal cannabis market to thrive, the unlicensed market must be tampered down. But enforcement of the unlicensed market has ruffled feathers on both sides of the issue – some have pushed for greater enforcement, while others say the current tactics mirror the enforcement of the failed war on drugs that marijuana legalization in New York State was aimed at rectifying.
Read MoreCaitlin Halligan, a powerful attorney and former solicitor general for the State of New York, appeared before the State Senate’s Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to make her case as to why she believes she is qualified to serve as a judge on the state’s highest court.
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