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What Happens When Drill and the Justice System Clash in the Courtroom?

Shortly after the deaths of two aspiring rappers earlier this year, New York City mayor Eric Adams appeared to take a hard line against drill rap, stressing in a February speech that social-media companies should pull the genre’s displays of gun violence from their apps, comparing the removal to Trump’s Twitter suspension. His words sparked a backlash as they not only...

August 18, 2022

Daily Voice

Hoboken Street Fight Stabbing Was Self-Defense, Attorney For Lyndhurst Man Says

UPDATE: A Lyndhurst man was defending himself when he stabbed a North Bergen man who attacked him in Hoboken, his lawyer told a judge in Jersey City on Tuesday. “It’s self defense, clear self defense,” attorney Adam Lustberg of Hackensack said after the judge released Andre Mateus, 26, with conditions following a Zoom hearing. The trouble began at the Tally-Ho...

September 28, 2021

NJ.com

New evidence convinces judge to release man charged in death of teen during sex

The New Jersey man accused in last month’s choking death of a woman during rough sex has been ordered released from jail and placed on home confinement to await his trial for reckless manslaughter. Michael Gaffney, 21, checked out of the Bergen County Jail shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, according to public records…

December 20, 2019

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NorthJersey.com

Maywood suspect in sex choking death released from jail

A Maywood man accused of fatally choking a 19-year-old woman during sex was released from jail on Thursday after the defense attorney presented new evidence alleging the woman died of a drug overdose. Michael Gaffney, 21, will be placed under home confinement and required to wear an ankle monitor as he awaits trial for allegedly asphyxiating Francis Garcia while they...

December 19, 2019

People

N.J. Man Allegedly Posted Naked Snapchat Pic of Teen He Choked to Death During Sex in Parked Car

The 21-year-old New Jersey man accused of killing a woman by choking her during sex allegedly took a picture of her while she was naked and unconscious — and posted it to Snapchat before seeking help. Michael Gaffney, 21, of Maywood, was arrested on Nov. 2 and charged with reckless murder in connection with the death of Frances Veronica Garcia,...

November 18, 2019

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Daily Mail UK

Woman dies after ‘rough sex in car and taking prescription drugs’

A New Jersey man accused of killing a woman during ‘rough sex’ in a car posted a picture of her dead, naked body on Snapchat before calling for help. Michael T. Gaffney, 21, from Maywood was charged with reckless manslaughter last month over the death of Francis Victoria Garcia, 19…

November 15, 2019

Daily Voice

JC man caught with 3 kilos of heroin at GWB could be freed in 18 months

EXCLUSIVE: A judge in Hackensack on Friday approved a plea-bargained six-year prison sentence for a Jersey City man caught by Fort Lee police with six pounds of pure heroin for sale during a George Washington Bridge stop last summer. While insisting that she was “not overlooking the seriousness of the offense,” Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti upheld the plea deal...

July 11, 2015

Daily Voice

Man who pulled trigger in horseplay shooting death of friend close to plea deal

CVP EXCLUSIVE: An East Orange man who is accused of killing his friend while carelessly playing with a handgun behind a New Milford apartment complex has less than two weeks to accept a plea deal or go to trial. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer said she thinks that she can secure a deal with Byron Sankar, 22…

June 10, 2015

Daily Voice

Sentencings end 43-kilo cocaine deal case, one of Bergen’s largest

EXCLUSIVE REPORT: One of the largest drug-trafficking prosecutions in Bergen County history was put to rest late last week with the sentencings of three men who all took plea deals and testified against an associate who was sent to prison for at least 16 years. In approving the considerably shorter negotiated sentences for the trio, Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian...

January 26, 2015

Daily Voice

Judge reduces bail for woman charged in Hackensack limo driver’s murder

ONLY ON CVP: A judge yesterday lowered bail for a part-time hairdresser from Newark accused of lying to investigators who charged her boyfriend in the cold-blooded killing of a popular Hackensack limousine driver on Route 80 last summer. Another judge in Hackensack previously denied the bail reduction for Jomaris Gonzalez, a 28-year-old mother of three, but Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana...

January 17, 2015

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