Daily News Brooklyn high school football star cleared in triple shooting 5/26/2016 Rahmel Ashby cried tears of joy as the jury unanimously agreed there was not enough evidence to prove he shot Quinesha Reeves, Monay Langhorne and Rogelio King on April 29, 2014. “It was easy. Just check the facts. Once we heard all the […]

Daily News Charges dropped against 5 accused in Brooklyn gang rape 3/1/2016 Prosecutors have dismissed rape charges against five Brooklyn teenagers accused of raping an 18-year-old woman last month at gunpoint after chasing off her father at a playground in Brownsville, officials said. Not only did the woman recant her sexual assault allegations, but she […]

New York Times Video Is Said to Show the Moments Before a Suspected Gang Rape in Brooklyn 1/13/2016 “What are we really doing here?” asked Kenneth Montgomery, the lawyer for Denzel Murray, 14. “Have we not learned our lessons from the Central Park Five?” A smartphone video that its owner and defense lawyers said showed […]

SLATE Prosecution Is About Locking Black People Up 9/7/2015 Earlier this week a new report from the Women Donors Network revealed that 95 percent of America’s elected prosecutors are white. For context on this stunning number, I spoke to Melba Pearson, the president of the National Black Prosecutors Association and an assistant state attorney in […]

MSNBC Bobby Shmurda Case Brings Complicated Questions 5/09/2015

PIX 11 NYC Attorneys Reflect On “Driving While Black” In Wake Of Deadly SC Police Shooting 4/10/2015