The author writes "New York trial courts are sharply divided over whether a recent United States Supreme Court decision has had an impact on the manner in which predicate felony sentences may be ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...

U.S. District Court Judge Eric Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York ruled that Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act, finding the ...