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Critics: Computer era 'intruding' on bail decisions, producing 'devastating results'

By Amanda Robert | Monday, Oct 29, 2018 @ 10:59am

As the use of risk assessment to make pre-trial decisions like bail increases across the country, concerns over the tools used and their potential to hinder judicial discretion and perpetuate racial biases have also grown among criminal justice researchers, leaders and organizations.
Two trials, same result: Sheldon Silver guilty of using public office to make millions from asbestos lawsuits

By John O'Brien | Saturday, May 12, 2018 @ 11:08am

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – For a second time, a jury has convicted former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of corruption for using his status as a lawmaker and asbestos attorney to rake in millions of dollars.
Sheldon Silver `blinded by greed,’ prosecutor says as retrial opens

By Dan Fisher | Monday, Apr 30, 2018 @ 5:03pm

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Sheldon Silver used his immense power as Speaker of the New York State Assembly to reap millions of dollars in bribes from Weitz & Luxenberg, one of the most prominent asbestos law firms in the country, a prosecutor told jurors at the opening of Silver’s retrial on federal corruption trials.