Lynne Irene Stewart was an American defense attorney who was known for representing controversial,famous defendants. She herself was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005,and sentenced to 28 months in prison. Her felony conviction led to her being automatically disbarred. She was convicted of helping pass messages from her client Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman,an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks,to his followers in al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya,an organization designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States Secretary of State.
Shareef Cousin is an African-American man from New Orleans who was convicted of the first-degree murder of Michael Gerardi in 1996 and sentenced to death as a juvenile in Louisiana. At age 17,he became the youngest condemned convict to be put on death row in Louisiana,and one of the youngest in the United States.
Cyrus Roberts Vance Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as the District Attorney of New York County,New York,also known as the Manhattan District Attorney. He was previously a principal partner at the law firm of Morvillo,Abramowitz,Grand,Iason,Anello,&Bohrer,P.C. He is the son of Cyrus Vance Sr.,former Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter. Vance did not seek reelection as District Attorney in the 2021 election,and was succeeded by Alvin Bragg. He is currently a partner at Baker McKenzie.
Rufus Seth Williams is a former district attorney of the city of Philadelphia. He began his term January 4,2010. He formerly served as an assistant district attorney. Williams was the first African-American district attorney in Philadelphia and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. On March 21,2017,Williams was indicted on 23 counts of bribery,extortion,and fraud. His trial began June 19,2017. He resigned and pleaded guilty to one charge on June 29,2017.
Mary Kerry Kennedy is an American lawyer,author and human rights activist. She is the seventh child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. During her 15-year marriage to future New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,from 1990 to 2005,she was known as Kerry Kennedy-Cuomo. She is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights,a non-profit human rights advocacy organization.
The murder of Mark Fisher occurred in the early morning hours of October 12,2003. Where a 19-years old college student was brutally beaten,shot five times,and left on Argyle Road in Prospect Park South,Brooklyn.
Extensive media attention and public criticism has been directed at the Bronx's court system,due to delays in bringing cases to trial,which are seen by critics as a clear infringement of defendants' constitutional right to a speedy trial.
Kirstin Blaise Lobato is a Nevada woman who was exonerated for the July 2001 murder and mutilation of Duran Bailey,a homeless man from St. Louis who was living in Las Vegas at the time of his death. At her first trial in May 2002,she was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced from 40 to 100 years in prison. In a 2006 retrial,she was convicted of the lesser charges of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 13 to 45 years. Lobato's case gained significant notoriety due to the publication of new evidence,which some believe points to her innocence of the crime.
Ann Marie Donnelly is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Kalief Browder was an African American youth from The Bronx,New York,who was held at the Rikers Island jail complex,without trial,between 2010 and 2013 for allegedly stealing a backpack containing valuables. During his imprisonment,Browder was kept in solitary confinement for 800 days.
Robert Thomas Johnson is an American attorney and jurist serving as a justice of the New York State Supreme Court in the county of the Bronx. He was previously a New York City Criminal Court judge,an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court,and a long-time Bronx County district attorney in New York City.
The Bronx County District Attorney is the elected district attorney for Bronx County,which is coterminous with the Borough of the Bronx,in New York City. The office is responsible for the prosecution of violations of New York state laws.. The current Bronx County District Attorney is Darcel Clark.
Deborah Danner,66,was fatally shot by New York City Police Department Sgt. Hugh Barry on October 18,2016,in her home in the Bronx,New York. According to police sources,she was armed with first a pair of scissors and then a baseball bat. According to an emergency medical technician,she had put the scissors down,and later on picked up a baseball bat. Barry was charged with murder and manslaughter in May 2017. He was acquitted in February 2018.
Madeline Singas is an American attorney and judge who serves as an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals since 2021.
Carolyn Pokorny is a career federal prosecutor,currently serving as First Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Previously she served as the Inspector General for the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority at the Office of the MTA Inspector General. She is the first woman to hold that position.
Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco was a 27-year-old Afro-Latina transgender woman who died at Rikers Island,New York City's main jail complex,on June 7,2019,in solitary confinement after staff failed to provide her with medical care that could have saved her life for 47 minutes following an epileptic seizure. After a six-month investigation,the New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) and Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark claimed that staff members were not responsible for Polanco's death. Records indicate that officers had extensive knowledge of Polanco's epilepsy,she having already suffered multiple seizures at Rikers.
Thomas Clair Binger is an American lawyer and government official who has served in the role of Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney since 2014. He was raised in Sioux Falls,South Dakota,where he attended the local Washington High School. He ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the office of the Racine County District Attorney in 2016. He served as the lead prosecutor in the 2021 trial of Kyle Rittenhouse following the 2020 Kenosha unrest shooting,which ended in Rittenhouse's acquittal.
Linda Jeanne Dunikoski is an American lawyer and prosecutor who serves as a senior assistant district attorney in Cobb County,Georgia. She was a prosecutor of the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal in 2014–2015 and the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in 2021.
Lucy Lang is an American attorney,author,and the 11th Inspector General of New York.
Juan Manuel Merchan is an American judge and former prosecutor. He is an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court in New York County (Manhattan). He is presiding over the 2024 criminal trial of former US president Donald Trump. Merchan is the first judge in history to preside over the criminal indictment of a sitting or former US President,and the first judge to hold a President in criminal contempt of court.
