John Jamelske, man who imprisoned 5 girls, women in DeWitt dungeon, denied parole
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
John Jamelske stands in a cell at the Onondaga County Justice Center awaiting sentencing in July 2003. After serving date on July 15th. Jamelske was convicted of kidnapping five women and girls, and holding them in dungeon in his DeWItt home. After 17 years behind bars, he s up for parole.Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
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John Jamelske, the serial rapist who kidnapped five women and girls and imprisoned them in a dungeon under his DeWitt home, has been denied parole, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed Tuesday.
Syracuse cop with checkered past sued again for brutality, this time by a retired jail doctor
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Mark Johnston, front, is filing a lawsuit against the Syracuse Police Department for alleged brutality. He claims officer Vallon Smith wrongly beat him up and broke his ribs last year on Mountain Goat Sunday after a dispute over a parking space. Behind him is attorney Jesse Ryder. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
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Now, Smith faces another brutality lawsuit: this time, by a former doctor at the county lockup.
Dr. Mark Johnston, 65, of Syracuse, alleges that Smith needlessly punched and tackled him at last year’s Mountain Goat Run downtown. Johnston was the medical administrator for 10 years at the Jamesville penitentiary. Police have said Johnston was the initial aggressor and that Smith was coming to the aid of another officer.
Judge Kate Rosenthal, who broke gender barriers in 39-year career, retires: ‘She wasn’t intimidated by anyone’
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
City Judge Kate Rosenthal in her chambers at the criminal courthouse in 2010. Michelle Gabel/The Post-Standard
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Syracuse, NY When Kate Rosenthal opened her Syracuse criminal defense practice in 1983, there weren’t any women handling the biggest cases: homicides.
“There were no women at that point doing it,” Rosenthal recalled. And most of the judges didn’t think there was anything wrong with that.
“The bench was all male, they were all about as old as our fathers, and they couldn’t conceive why we would want to do that kind of work,” Rosenthal said.
Capitol Confidential By Chris Bragg on December 15, 2020 at 1:48 PM
When a member of the public wants to look at a New York government official’s financial disclosure statement, under current practice, the request itself remains confidential.
The New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics meets Tuesday Nov. 27, 2018 in Albany, NY. (John Carl D’Annibale/Times Union)
But a commissioner on the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, Gary Lavine, wants to change the practice. Under his proposal, filers would be allowed to obtain information about the specific individuals that had requested their disclosure statements.
For Lavine, the proposed measure is personal: As a JCOPE commissioner, he is himself required to file an annual financial disclosure statement with the agency, which reveals details like sources of outside income and investments. At a JCOPE meeting on Tuesday, Lavine stated that he wants to know whether anyone from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s off
Youth pastor protects unconscious victim during Syracuse mass shooting
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Youth pastor protects unconscious victim during Syracuse mass shooting
Youth pastor protects unconscious victim during Syracuse mass shooting
Nitch Jones | Screenshot: Facebook/Nitch Jones
A youth pastor in Syracuse, New York, said he helped protect and shield an unconscious teenager fighting for his life during a mass shooting Saturday night that involved six shooters and appears to be gang-related.
Nitch Jones, the pastor of youth and young adult affairs at Syracuse’s Zion Hill World Harvest Baptist Church, took to Facebook Sunday morning to unload his thoughts following the horrifying shooting the night before that ended a large party attended by hundreds on the city’s Near West Side.