One of the corrections officers acquitted in the death of Robert Brooks is suing the state of New York for $5 million, claiming public defamation, humiliation, and more in his lawsuit. Filed on Jan.
UTICA, N.Y. — A former prison guard who pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced in the death of Robert Brooks is set to be released on bond, according to his attorney. A New York State ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to court records, Judge Robert Bauer has denied the motion for David Walters to withdraw his guilty plea in the Robert ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the Marcy corrections officers involved in the death of Robert Brooks who testified at trial has pleaded guilty and will be ...
Utica, N.Y. — A former corrections officer pleaded guilty to a reduced charge Friday after jurors anounced they reached an impasse in deliberations. Michael Fisher was on trial this week for ...
Robert Brooks Jr., Brooks’s son, and Jared Ricks, Brooks’s brother, sat in the gallery and stared at Farina’s back as their victim impact statements were read to the court. Anthony Farina, Nicholas ...
After calls for prison reform after the deaths of Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an omnibus bill to enact transformational changes within state prisons and local jails.
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. It’s been 54 years since the infamous Attica prison ...