People v. Catherine Janelle
Jan 12, 2017OUTCOME: reversal of conviction
19 year old conviction reversed on appeal for jurisdictional error in waiver of grand jury proceedings
Labe M. Richman's Legal Cases (9)
New York, NY
Criminal defense Lawyer at New York, NY
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Appeals
People v. Pinto
Nov 17, 2015OUTCOME: Remanded for a hearing
I won an appeal of a 440 motion that was wrongly denied in the lower court. People v. Pinto ___ A.D.3d ___, (2d Dept. 2015), 2015 WL 7266251, 2015 Slip Op. 08441 My role was covered on the front pa ... ge of the New York Law Journal on November 27, 2015.
People v. Dealmeida
Jan 02, 2015OUTCOME: Reversal of conviction
Conviction vacated on appeal in Appellate Division because of ineffective assistance of counsel
People v. Baret, 2012 NY App. Div. LEXIS 6512, NY Slip Op 6550 (1st Dept. 2012),
N/AOUTCOME: Order denying 440 motion to vacate is reversed
Denial of motion reversed by appellate court and Padilla v. Kentucky was given retroactive effect by an appellate court for the first time in NY. Case is now in Court of Appeals in Albany.
People v. Jaikaron, 33 Misc. 3d 137(a) (Appellate Term, 2nd Dept., 2011). ,
N/AOUTCOME: Denial of his 440 motion to vacate was reversed and remanded for a hearing (Defendant won hearing, and obtained green card)
Defendant convicted of a controlled substance offense which made him ineligible for a green card. There were three people in the car where the drugs were found and the defendant had a triable case. He ... had pleaded guilty with the same lawyer at the co-defendants who received better pleas and he was misled that the conviction would not affect deportation
People v. Felipe Palma, 224 A.D.2d 363 (1st Dept. 1996)
N/AOUTCOME: convictions reversed
Rape and robbery conviction reversed. Richman handled this case as a faculty member of the Cardozo Appellate Clinic and he and a student there won the case on the grounds that prior statements of a wit ... ness were not turned over.
United States v. Lynch, 162 F.3d 732, 2d Cir. 1998
N/AOUTCOME: Prosecutor's appeal disallowed
Labe Richman helped write the amicus brief for the NYCLU in this case where the government was not allowed to appeal an acquittal on double jeopardy grounds. The position put forward by this brief was ... accepted by the Second Circuit
People v. Calderone, 151 Misc.2d 530, New York Cty. 1991
N/AOUTCOME: Case Dismissed
Landmark decision which closed down privately filed criminal summons which had occurred in Criminal Court.
People v. Achaibar, 49 A.D.3d 389 (1st Dept. 2008)
N/AOUTCOME: plea reversed and remanded for trial
Plea of guilty reversed on appeal because of mistake in court's discussion of consequences of the plea.
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