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OAD’s 2019 Preservation Training for Trial Lawyers
On February 4, 2019, OAD Supervising Attorneys, Eunice Lee and Joe Nursey, will lead a discussion about how trial lawyers can and should preserve errors to maximize full and complete appellate review. This training will be held at: New York University Law School Room 210, Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Square South New York, N.Y. 6-8pm…
Read MoreOAD Alumni Directory
In honor of OAD’s 30th anniversary, we are proud to present this first-ever OAD Alumni Directory. We have listed our former staff members’ names, current place of business, and position while at OAD. As this Directory powerfully demonstrates, OAD-trained attorneys have become state and federal public defenders, scholars, policy-makers, jurists and private practitioners. OAD’s alumni…
Read MoreCourt of Appeals Dismisses Enterprise Corruption Indictment
On November 27, 2018, New York’s Court of Appeals dismissed the Enterprise Corruption indictment against OAD client, Damian Jones, finding that “the proof elicited at trial was not legally sufficient to establish the elements of defendant’s knowledge of the existence of the subject criminal enterprise and the nature of its affairs or his intent to…
Read MoreAppellate Update (November 5-16, 2018)
Second Department People v. Jahmarley Jones Reversing and remanding for a new trial for Crawford and Inoa errors. Mr. Jones was allegedly part of the S.N.O.W. gang. Two officers testified as experts based on their expertise “in the hierarchy, practices, [and] languages of the S.N.O.W. Gang and other gangs.” Both officers stated that their expertise…
Read MoreAD1 Vacates OAD’s Client’s Plea Because of Inadequate Trial Court Instruction
In People v. Vasquez, the First Department vacated Mr. Vasquez’s second-degree robbery plea after concluding that the trial court failed to inform Mr. Vasquez that the enhanced sentence he would receive if he violated the conditions of his plea agreement would include post-release supervision (PRS). Congratulations to OAD Staff Attorney Victorien Wu! Read it here: http://www.nycourts.gov/report…/3dseries/2018/2018_07658.htm
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