by Beth Karas | Sep 18, 2016 | News |
Directly across the elevators on the 6th floor of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is a large wall—a montage of giant-sized newspaper articles spanning decades. The headlines and articles are about famous cases the office has handled. One of them...
by Beth Karas | Sep 12, 2016 | News |
In March 2012, former Rutgers University student, Dharun Ravi, was convicted of 15 counts of invasion of privacy and related crimes for setting up a webcam to spy on his new roommate, Tyler Clementi, who was having sex with another man. In September 2010, just days...
by Beth Karas | Sep 6, 2016 | News, Bill Cosby |
Bill Cosby is fighting to keep critical evidence out of his upcoming trial. At a hearing today, the court is expected to hear arguments based on two motions to suppress evidence filed by Cosby’s attorneys. The first is a motion to suppress the contents of his...
by Beth Karas | Sep 2, 2016 | News, Bill Cosby, Pedro Hernandez, Sievers, Angelika Graswald, Justin Ross Harris |
Angelika Graswald, accused of the drowning death of her fiance Vincent Viafore on April 19, 2015, was back in court yesterday. The judge was expected to rule on whether a jury will see her 11-hour interrogation by police 10 days after Viafore died. The judge, however,...
by Beth Karas | Aug 27, 2016 | News |
I can’t recall if we’ve discussed in detail the Nick Hillary case in upstate New York but I have the Sepember 6, 2016 trial date noted on the KOC calendar. The New York Times wrote a great article last March that I recommend if you’re interested in...
by Beth Karas | Aug 19, 2016 | News |
An Ohio woman will be back on trial Monday, charged with murdering her husband of eight months on New Year’s Eve 2014. Colleen McKernan, 28, shot her husband, Rob, 10 times in their home in Stark County, Ohio. She says she killed him in self-defense. The...
