Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a rare en banc ruling, decided that criminal defense lawyers are required by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution to advise a client who is a naturalized citizen and wishes to plead guilty of the risk of denaturalization and then deportation. Firm […]
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A New York judge has reversed the 2023 manslaughter conviction of our client, Gregory Thayer. (See previous posts on this case here and here.) As we alleged in our motion papers, Mr. Thayer’s local attorney never told Mr. Thayer or his lead attorney, Robert Gottlieb, that he had improperly met privately with the trial judge’s law clerk, who made […]
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Today our firm reached an early settlement for $90,000 with the New York City Comptroller’s Office for client Daryus Bryant to settle his claim against the City for excessive force and false arrest. On the evening of August 2, 2023, police officers drove into a pedestrian area in front of the Sumner Houses in Brooklyn, […]
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Our firm today filed a wrongful conviction lawsuit on behalf of Donnell Perkins, seeking a total of at least $80 million in compensatory and punitive damages against individual police officers who caused Mr. Perkins to be falsely prosecuted in 2000–01 for a Brooklyn homicide he didn’t commit. You can read the lawsuit here. In 2015, firm […]
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Today, our firm settled claims, brought on behalf of the estate of the late Jaythan Kendrick, against New York City for $15 million. Last month, our firm settled, for $4 million, a claim brought on behalf of the estate against New York State. Mr. Kendrick tragically died two years ago, after being released from 26 […]
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Our firm today filed an unjust conviction lawsuit on behalf of Steven Ruffin, seeking a total of at least $27,010,000 in compensatory damages from the State of New York. You can read the lawsuit here. Mr. Ruffin was convicted of a Brooklyn homicide he did not commit in 1996, and spent fourteen years behind bars, […]
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The firm filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Robert Hooper today, seeking $30 million in compensatory and punitive damages against individual police detectives and the City of New York. The complaint alleges that a team of narcotics officers fabricated drug charges against Mr. Hooper and then failed to disclose numerous lawsuits and civilian complaints […]
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Today our firm, as co-counsel with Bloch & White, reached an early settlement for $3,262,500 with the New York City Comptroller’s Office for a client who was wrongfully convicted in the Bronx on sexual assault charges and spent 7 ½ years in prison. The settlement is believed to be the largest ever reached with the Comptroller’s […]
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Our firm today filed a wrongful conviction lawsuit on behalf of Reginald Cameron, seeking a total of at least $37 million in compensatory and punitive damages against individual police detectives who caused Mr. Cameron to be falsely prosecuted in 1994–96 for a Queens homicide he didn’t commit. You can read the lawsuit here. Mr. Cameron’s conviction […]
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Today Governor Hochul is commuting the sentence of our firm’s pro bono client Jermaine Swaby. Jermaine has served 22 1/2 years in prison for his 2002 Kings County murder conviction. He will now be eligible for release to parole supervision this November, two years earlier than he would have been eligible under his original sentence of 25 years […]
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