Sentence examples for bronx courts from inspiring English sources

On the day Ms. Parish died, he had two felony cases pending against him in the Bronx courts.

Women have taken to Bronx courts to revive bocce, a game once thought of as only for old Italian men.

But Mr. Hooks did not walk free that afternoon after the Bronx courts officially declared him an innocent man.

So they sit, sometimes for close to a year, waiting for the Bronx courts to eventually deal with their case.

The Bronx courts are so clogged that when a lawyer asks for a one-week adjournment the next court date usually doesn't happen for six weeks or more.

Some suspects are released repeatedly even as they graduate from burglary to violent robbery to attempted murder, crimes that the suspects would not have been free to commit were it not for the delays plaguing the Bronx courts.

During the negotiations, their lawyers said the Bronx court and the appeals court in Manhattan that reviews Bronx cases would not necessarily agree that the suffering of one mother was worth the same as that of another.

24 NEW YORK/REGION 39-44 In a Bronx Court Experiment, Youths Get Juries of Peers In a quiet experiment in Family Court in the Bronx, teenagers arrested on misdemeanor charges and even minor felonies -- anything from graffiti writing to small-time robberies and drug sales -- are being judged, quite literally, by a jury of their peers.

A25 NEW YORK/REGIONC14-15 Bronx Court Hobbled By Broken Elevators The elevators set aside for Bronx Family Court have been broken for about a year, people who work there say.

Court Navigators are also permitted to accompany unrepresented litigants into the courtroom in Kings County Housing Court and Bronx Civil Court.

After deliberating for 20 minutes in a closed room upstairs, the jury found him "responsible" on two of four counts and sentenced him to a two-hour legal rights workshop (mandatory for all Bronx Youth Court defendants), four hours on a Youth Court jury and 16 hours working on a Youth Force project.