My friends case has 6 B's he's looking at 25 years to life in prison for something he didn't do how do you get out of jail time

Dear Buffalo Friend: I doubt your friend's attorney would choose to discuss any aspect of the charges against your friend. You are likely a...

Dear New York Commercial Tenant: I do not have the benefit of review of your lease--but, unless the lease allowed the landlord the right to...

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: No. That is the method chosen by the system program to indicate when a trial has not reached a conclusion. The adjournment...

Do they have the right to evict me?

Dear Far Rockaway Tenant: Your decision to move into an apartment at a NYCHA property and the tenant's decision to control an apartment after...

Dear Buffalo Tenant: Perhaps you should not have made an issue with the small defect in the countertop ahead of moving out. If the burn is as...

Do I give departing tenant their security deposit back?

Dear Syracuse Property Owner: I suggest you return the entire security deposit to the "outgoing" tenants and take a new security deposit from...

Cease and desist letter from co-op says I almost hit an employee and then second time, I drove too close to a parent and

Dear Bronxville Co-Op Owner: You had two close call with your vehicle and other persons who did not recognize your driving by was at all...

Can non payment get dismissed because of this?

Dear New York Tenant: If your former landlord assigned your unpaid rent to the successor, and informed the new owner of the pending nonpayment...

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Dear Little Neck Property Owner: Unless the lease imposed an obligation upon you to inform the tenant in advance of the end of the lease that...

Is it legal for a landlord to not provide heat for four days?

Dear Johnstown Tenant: While you are entitled to heat when renting an entire house, sometime, as you just experienced, a failure in the heating...