An advocate for constitutional and human conditions for inmates, the Prisoners’ Rights Project focuses on state prisons as well as New York City jails. Since its founding, the Project has built a record of consistent achievements relative to the treatment and...
Self-dealing is a criminal act in New York as well as other states. It entails one person violating their fiduciary duty when carrying out a transaction on behalf of someone else, like a broker hearing about a customer order, placing his own trade to take advantage of...
Non-violent crime where the perpetrator is trying to scam people out of money is known as a white-collar crime. The term came about in the 1930s due to these financially motivated crimes being committed primarily by people who worked white-collar jobs such as bankers,...
Police officers have an unfavorable reputation for planting drugs on suspects. Because of recent news coverage, there is great interest in the matter. According to USA Today, thousands of officers receive disciplinary strikes every decade. How many are guilty of...
Civil rights are a guarantee for everyone in New York and the rest of the country to protect them from government overreach. One example is the right that allows a person to sue a police officer for false arrest. Bivens claims are a part of these rights and give...
If you have ever been falsely arrested by an officer of the law, then you know that it can be a humiliating experience. However, you have civil rights guaranteed by law, so you may be able to sue the arresting officer for a false arrest. How do you sue for a false...
The killing of George Floyd by a police officer prompted hundreds of protests in the New York City area and throughout the country. The Black Lives Matter movement has inspired people to protest police brutality and subsequent killings of people of color by police....
During a criminal investigation, you must balance two competing interests. The first is the interests of the government and the second is whether the intrusion violates your Fourth Amendment rights. According to the U.S. Courts, the Fourth Amendment protects the...
In the state of New York, the crime of embezzlement is considered to be a form of larceny and is covered by larceny statutes. The definition of larceny is the wrongful taking of another party’s property. Larceny is considered to be embezzlement when the person who...
A 23-year-long nightmare for a wrongly convicted New York man is over. With no DNA evidence, video footage, confession, phone records or fingerprints, the man was charged with murder on the basis of eyewitness testimony. For more than two decades, he sat in a prison...