Lori Zeno, the former head of Queens Defenders, allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars from the organization she founded to fund luxury vacations, a teeth-whitening procedure and other personal expenses, prosecutors said this week.
Read MoreThe city’s largest public defender union on Thursday said that the city needs to boost funding for legal services providers if it wants to help avert a mass strike that has the potential to bring the city’s courts to a screeching halt this summer.
Read MoreSupporters of Hiram Monserrate are appealing a February court decision which upheld a law specifically created to stop the former lawmaker from running for office because of his criminal history.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams was sued by the City Council on Monday for his refusal to implement a law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails.
Read MoreThe 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.”
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