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... Mielko ("Mielko"), to her apartment in Nassau County, New York. For some time, the two sat in So... forwarded a memorandum to the Police Commissioner entitled "Allegations of Serious Misconduct." This...The jurors heard both the testimony of Sorlucco on the point ...
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Few things in public service have a reputation as unpleasant as jury duty.
Jurors have become used to waiting for as long as two weeks without serving, sitting on benches in unpleasant rooms. Thousands who have waited never served on a case.
... help," said Michael O'Donohoe, commissioner of jurors for Suffolk County. "It doesn't disrupt ... Many juror waiting areas, such as those in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, are equipped with Wi-Fi, tel...
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... deferring to the New York State tax commissioner without scrutinizing his rationale. For example, i... assessments that drove property values in Nassau County beyond the statutory maximums permitted by ... unanswerable, questions will be put to jurors who will usually know little of the realities of e...
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Prior to that, bribery allegations surrounding Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson involved the colorful detail of $90,000 in cash allegedly found in his freezer during an FBI raid.3 Closer to home in Tennessee, the Operation Tennessee Waltz scandal has garnered public attention for several years, as a sting operation that led to a number of criminal allegations of bribery involving state legislators.4 The success of Tennessee Waltz led to the similar and more recent Operation Mainstreet Sweeper, which resulted in the federal indictments of several Memphis, Tennessee City Councilmen.5 The scandals led the state legislature to pass a sweeping new public ethics law, which required local jurisdictions across the state to pass their own local ethics codes by the middle of 2007.6 Rivalin...
... federal prosecutors indicted former Shelby County Commissioner Bruce Thompson for extortion and mail... to include payments intended to influence jurors, witnesses, and voters.62 While not public officia...In People v. Ginsberg,256 the Nassau County Court of New York held that non-criminal ac...
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...See Jewell v. County of Nassau, 917 F.2d 738, 739 (2d Cir. 1990) (holdi... assess the demeanor and credibility of the jurors," United States v. Breen, 243 F.3d 591, 597 (2d Ci...
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...For the most part, fact finders and jurors, the majority of whom are white, view racial issue... the criminal justice system throughout a county. (213) He argued that to understand their conduct ... Department are: Kings, Queens, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland,... 1976) to serve as the First Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Metal Hygiene....
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...Whitney, Asst. Dist. Atty., County of Nassau, Mineola, N. Y. (Denis Dillon, Dist. Atty., County... telephone communications with several jurors during the course of Sher's trial violated his con...
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- United States of America, Appellee, v. Charles Williams, Et Al., Defendants, Claddis Arrington, Mary Ferguson, A/K/a 'Mary Davis', A/K/a 'Mary Johnson', and Brooks Gregory Davis, Defendants-Appellants., 927 F.2d 95 (2nd Cir. 1991)
... pre-voir dire excuses by the jury commissioner or clerk, most courts that were asked to rule on t... the Random Selection of Grand and Petit Jurors, adopted pursuant to the Jury Selection and Servic...Co. v. County of Nassau, 717 F.2d 747, 749 (2d Cir.1983). They d...
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- Otis Chestnut, Susan Karp, Stephen Martinot, Ellen Shallit, Michael Brown, Jeremiah Gelles, Levi Laub, And, Robert Apter, Appellants, v. the People of the State of New York, Appellee., 370 F.2d 1 (2nd Cir. 1966)
...(Frank S. Hogan, Dist. Atty., New York County, on the brief), for appellee. Before LUMBARD, Chie...' of persons qualified to serve as grand jurors. Appellants allege that the method of selection re... the Grand Jury selection procedure for Nassau County, while in People v. Agron, 10 N.Y.2d 130, 2... rejected the defense that the jury commissioners had not specifically intended to exclude Negroes f...
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... acid in his face on April 5, 1956, in the County of New York. The jury found all three defendants, ... judge in his examination of the panel of jurors on the 'voir dire,' to determine whether the publi...A doctor from the Nassau County jail was examined by attorneys for Miranti ... States or before any United States commissioner or other committing magistrate, or any grand or pe...