A Queens man was sentenced to three decades in prison on Wednesday for the mistaken murder of a teenager which subsequently sparked a gang feud that turned South Jamaica into a battlefield.
Read MoreJagger Freeman, the man convicted of murdering an NYPD detective who was fatally shot by his fellow officers during a Queens robbery gone wrong in 2019, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday.
Read MoreGlenn Hirsch, the Briarwood man accused of shooting a delivery driver in Forest Hills to death in April, was released on bail by a Queens Criminal Court judge on Monday.
Read MoreAfter eight years, Prakash Churaman walked out of the Queens Criminal Courthouse a free man on Monday. He first walked in as a teenage boy facing murder charges.
Read MoreJudge Kenneth Holder said Tuesday that Prakash Churaman’s attorney would no longer be allowed to physically share evidence in the case with his client, who will only be able to view the evidence in his attorney’s office. The order, according to Holder, is designed to limit communications with the press.
Read MoreA Queens Supreme Court judge has called for an unscheduled conference in the case of Prakash Churaman, who is weeks away from being tried a second time for the 2014 murder of 21-year-old Taquane Clark.
Read MoreThe Judiciary Committee of the Queens County Bar Association released its ratings of judicial candidates running in the upcoming general election.
Judges Karen Gopee, Michele Titus, Laurentina McKetney Butler, David Kirschner and current Supreme Court Justices Kenneth Holder and Denis Butler will run on the Democratic Party line for Queens Supreme Court in November.
Read MoreNorbert Williams admitted to attacking a man with an ice pick in the stairwell of an apartment building.
Read MoreDonna Francis, 39, pumped the silicone gel into the woman’s butt inside the basement of her Far Rockaway home in 2015.
Read MoreAnother Legal Aid attorney represented a potential witness in the case, prompting prosecutor Shawn Clark to file a motion claiming a conflict of interest.
Read MoreThe Queens District Attorney’s Office argued in April that disqualifying the Legal Aid Society defense team is in the best interest of defendant Christopher Ransom.
Read MoreShamdai Arjun killed 9-year-old Ashdeep Kaur and left her inside the apartment’s bathtub in August 2016.
Read MoreTroy Thomas was forced to return to Queens from his native Guyana on Wednesday for allegedly shooting 20-year-old Frank Keith in the torso.
Read MoreThere’s a whole wide world between tiny, rural Deeside, Jamaica and Jamaica High School. And by his teens, Justice Kenneth Holder had experienced a lot of it.
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