A man convicted nearly a decade ago in a fatal shooting in Waterbury is looking to have his murder conviction overturned on the grounds that his lawyer failed to subpoena a man who allegedly confessed ...
An Appellate Court ruled the lawyer was right to not pursue the brother, who was evading investigators and hadn't confessed ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Judge Abdus-Salaam attended Columbia Law School with former attorney general Eric Holder and was considered a trailblazer by many ...
The death of Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam, whose body was found in the Hudson River, has been declared by the NYPD as a ‘suspicious,” exactly one week after her body surfaced. Abdus-Salaam, who served ...
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She was the first African-American woman to sit on New York State’s highest court. She was also widely hailed as the nation’s first female Muslim judge — or at least one of the first judges with a ...
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Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, whose body was found in the Hudson River in April, drowned herself, the city medical examiner said Wednesday. Abdus-Salaam, 65, the first African-American woman to serve on ...