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No Injustice in Shem Walker Delays

The following is an Op-Ed by Robert Reuland that appeared on the New York Times’ blog “The Local” on October 6, 2009. The article is available here. If you didn’t know any better, you might believe the criminal justice system has something to do with

Ex-con May Choke on Own Poison Pen

A Queens tax preparer already charged with fraud sent a bigwig at the district attorney’s office two letters threatening to kill her – one containing a drawing of a tombstone. “I finally got my 9 mil gun and I am insane,” Jack Chang, 54, allegedly wrote to Gilda

Queens Accountant Is Charged With Threatening to Kill a Prosecutor

An accountant from Queens who was convicted of grand larceny in 1995 and indicted on similar counts in April has been arrested on charges that he threatened to kill the Manhattan prosecutor who handled both cases, officials said on Wednesday. The accountant, Jack Chang, of

What Mop, Asks Beating Victim Alejandra Vazquez’s Mom

The lawyer for a Brooklyn mom charged with beating her 11-year-old daughter to death with a mop handle said Tuesday the girl fell while hanging a shower curtain. Florencia Vazquez, 36, stood meekly as her lawyer said she saw daughter Alejandra fall in a bathtub a

Mother Says Child Died After Fall in Bathtub

A Brooklyn woman accused of beating her 11-year-old daughter to death denied that she did so and contended that the girl was injured when she slipped in the bathtub, the woman’s lawyer said on Tuesday. The woman, Florencia Vasquez, 36, was charged with second-degree murder,