Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about District Attorneys

Manhattan DA Cy Vance Fields Another Challenge to the Right of Way Law

By Brad Aaron | Oct 31, 2016 | 2 Comments

@CBS @CNN @nypost Car flip 36th and Madison pic.twitter.com/SrEGhjLSwi — Justin Kundrat (@JustinKundrat) February 29, 2016 A livery cab driver who killed a senior in a Manhattan crosswalk last winter is challenging the constitutionality of the Right of Way Law. District Attorney Cy Vance filed a response defending the statute. At around 8:30 on the morning of […]

Driver Who Killed 3 People on Bronx Sidewalk Charged With Manslaughter

By Brad Aaron | Oct 20, 2016 | 6 Comments

District Attorney Darcel Clark filed manslaughter and homicide charges against a motorist who fatally struck three people, including a child, on a Bronx sidewalk last year. Howard Unger was indicted this week on three counts of manslaughter, three counts of assault, three counts of homicide, one count of misdemeanor reckless endangerment, and one misdemeanor count of falsifying records, […]

Garbage Truck Driver Admits to Causing Crash That Killed Cyclist Hoyt Jacobs

By Brad Aaron | Aug 4, 2016 | 31 Comments

The truck driver who killed cyclist Hoyt Jacobs in Long Island City last year admitted to causing the crash and pled guilty to violating the victim’s right of way. Jacobs was riding north on Vernon Boulevard at around 7:15 p.m. last January 17 when Frank Alibrandi, also northbound, hit him with a Mack truck while turning right onto 41st Avenue, according […]

Cy Vance Wins Murder Conviction for East Village Sidewalk Killing [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Jul 20, 2016 | 4 Comments

Update November 4, 2016: Martin was sentenced to 20 years to life in state prison, according to Vance’s office. A driver who killed a man and injured two others on a Manhattan sidewalk was convicted of murder, District Attorney Cy Vance announced today. Shaun Martin, who reportedly had a history of drunk driving, was high on […]

Manhattan DA Vance Wins Manslaughter Conviction for High-Speed LES Crash

By Brad Aaron | Jul 7, 2016 | 5 Comments

Update: Danny Lin was sentenced to one and two-thirds to five years in prison. The sentence was “half of what prosecutors had argued for,” the Daily News reported. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance won a jury trial conviction for manslaughter in the case of a speeding motorist who killed a man walking on the Lower East Side in […]

Brooklyn DA Charges Driver With Manslaughter for Killing Victoria Nicodemus

By David Meyer | Jun 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

A grand jury has indicted Marlon Sewell for second-degree manslaughter six months after he jumped a curb in Fort Greene and killed 30-year-old Victoria Nicodemus while driving with a suspended license, Gothamist reports. Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson had refrained from pressing felony charges until Nicodemus’s family pressured his office to take action. On December 6, Sewell, driving a Chevy SUV […]

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