A utility knife Elliot Parrilla had purchased at Home Depot and was deemed a gravity knife.Legal Aid Society A knife found on the person of Richard Neal by the NYPD in 2008. The officer was able to ...

A federal judge ruled today that New York's notoriously nonsensical law criminalizing "gravity knives"—which groups have said for years is used by New York City to selectively prosecute people, ...

A federal judge in New York has deemed a state ban on gravity knives to be unconstitutional — but stopped short of striking down the controversial statute entirely. Citing the "high risk of arbitrary ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The ban on gravity knives in New York has been lifted, and while it's good news for many workers and artisans, it's creating a new problem for some law enforcement officers.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A little-known law against "gravity knives," a broadly defined weapon that law enforcement has ...

From People v. Trowells (N.Y. trial ct. July 11, 2014, published in the N.Y.L.J. today) (some paragraph breaks added): Defendant, Anthony Trowells, is charged, inter alia, with Criminal Possession of ...

Citing a circuit split, the petitioners argue the Manhattan appellate court is out of sync with recent SCOTUS decisions in upholding the prosecutor and police policies on the knives. Opponents of New ...

Shortly after taking office as District Attorney of Manhattan, Cyrus Vance, Jr., began enforcing a novel interpretation of New York State’s half-century old ban on “gravity knives.” A state statute ...