by mikelaw | Apr 4, 2012 | In The News
Newsday – Long Island, N.Y. Author: ANDREW SMITH Date: April 4, 2012 Copyright © 2012, Newsday Inc. For the first time since he smothered his bedridden mother and tried to kill himself in May, a Brentwood man was free Tuesday afternoon, the beneficiary of a rare...
by mikelaw | Mar 7, 2012 | In The News
Newsday – Long Island, N.Y. Author: ANDREW SMITH Date: March 6, 2012 Copyright © 2012, Newsday Inc. In an unusual act of prosecutorial mercy, a Brentwood man who suffocated his bedridden mother before trying to kill himself will be freed from jail next month...
by mikelaw | Jan 19, 2012 | In The News
Driver thanks victim ‘I took your life … and you saved mine,’ she says Bicyclist’s family angered by words, sentence. Newsday – Long Island, N.Y. Author: ANDREW SMITH Date: January 19, 2012 Copyright © 2011, Newsday Inc. Angering the victim’s family at her...
by mikelaw | Nov 7, 2011 | In The News
Newsday – Long Island, N.Y. Author: ANDREW SMITH Date: November 11, 2011 Copyright © 2011, Newsday Inc. A man whose wife was killed while bicycling by a Lake Grove woman driving under the influence of a combination of prescription drugs was angered the judge...
by mikelaw | Sep 13, 2011 | In The News
Newsday – Long Island, N.Y. Author: MATTHEW CHAYES AND BILL MASON Date: September 13, 2011 Copyright © 2011, Newsday Inc. A dispute between two 12-year-old girls on Facebook turned into a fight after which the mother of one of the girls attacked a preteen...
by mikelaw | Jun 8, 2011 | In The News
Lawyer: Son who killed mom, 98, adored her Newsday – Long Island, N.Y. Author: ANDREW SMITH Date: June 8, 2011 Copyright © 2011, Newsday Inc. A Brentwood man intent on killing himself due to his failing health suffocated his 98-year-old mother because he didn’t...
by mikelaw | Jun 8, 2011 | In The News
Newsday – Long Island, N.Y. Author: ANDREW SMITH Date: June 8, 2011 Copyright © 2011, Newsday Inc. A Centereach woman admitted in court Wednesday that she was drunk and on drugs when she wrapped her grandmother’s Lexus around a tree in Central Islip, killing two...
by mikelaw | May 11, 2011 | In The News
Lawyer: East End laborer didn’t steal art Newsday – Long Island, N.Y. Author: ANDREW SMITH Date: May 11, 2011 Copyright © 2011, Newsday Inc. The day laborer accused of stealing $600,000 worth of art from six exclusive East End homes did sell some of the...
by mikelaw | Dec 11, 2010 | In The News
Grilled on stand in slay trial Newsday – Long Island, N.Y. Author: CARL MACGOWAN Date: Dec. 11, 2010 Copyright © 2010, Newsday Inc. Facing blistering questions Friday from her ex-boyfriend’s defense attorney, a former stripper denied lying about a...
