GDB Firm Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

The New York State Court System opened the new year with a swath of proposed changes to the way criminal justice is administered in New York State. These changes, which come in the form of administrative directives from Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, may help to streamline the criminal justice system and avoid improper convictions.

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KMK Blog

JANUARY 30, 2018

The MLB team in Cleveland has finally decided to stop wearing "Chief Wahoo," a caricature of a Native American, on their uniforms. The change will happen in 2019. Interestingly, however, the team told ESPN that it "will still sell merchandise featuring the mascot in Northeast Ohio" because "[t]he team must maintain a retail presence so that MLB and the Indians can keep ownership of the trademark.

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GDB Firm Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

Recently, the New York Court of Appeals recognized the consensus of cognitive and social psychologists that the likelihood of making a mistaken identification is significantly higher when the witness is identifying someone of another race. This is of crucial consequence in the criminal context since mistaken eyewitness identifications are the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions in the country, responsible for more wrongful convictions than all other causes combined.

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GDB Firm Blog

JANUARY 31, 2018

At the onset of the New Year, the Criminal Part of New York Supreme Court issued a ruling which called upon prosecutors and judges to diligently scrutinize search warrants seeking to access information stored on a defendants electronic devices before signing off on them. The court's ruling in People v. Covlin provides the law an opportunity to catch up with rapid changes in technology and society which have been diminishing Fourth Amendment rights of individuals.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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