In addition to maintaining this blog on its website, ETKS has long-maintained a separate blog entitled “New York Criminal Defense,” accessible at http://newyorkcriminaldefense.blogspot.com/.
Court ruling challenges city’s policy on redacting body camera footage
Article on decision by Justice Ann Marie Taddeo holding that Rochester Police Department’s body camera policy of excising officer’s names and images prior to disclosure is improper. Read the D&C article here. Nice work by Ted...
read moreValentino Dixon freed after serving 27 years on wrongful conviction
Check out this well-written piece in Golf Digest on the exoneration of ETKS client Valentino...
read moreAssociate Paul Meabon teams with Assistant Public Defender Josh Stubbe to present CLE on justification
The Monroe County Public Defender’s Office will be hosting a CLE on Friday, September 7, 2018 on the defense of justification. Joshua Stubbe (Monroe County Public Defender’s Office) and Paul Meabon (Easton Thompson Kasperek Shiffrin) will provide a general overview of the justification statute, help differentiate between lethal and non-lethal force and analyze facts courts rely on to determine the initial aggressor. Participants will receive 2.0 credit hours in the areas of skills (both...
read moreChallenging the assumption that an innocent person would not plead guilty
I recently challenged on appeal the validity of my client’s guilty plea based on my client’s questionable mental capacity and ability to understand the plea bargaining process. Ignoring the import of my client’s diminished capacity, the prosecutor on appeal (in typical fashion) argued that “one could assume” my client would not have “readily” admitted to the offense in open court if he had not committed it. It is remarkable that this argument is still...
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