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By DNAinfo Staff on September 25, 2009 12:00am  | Updated on September 25, 2009 11:24am

<!--Apparently the Hamilton Heights serial rapist knows no boundaries. He is also now the suspect in an August sexual assault of a woman in SoHo. In the lobby of a Broome Street apartment building, the woman fought back and threw a punch, drawing blood that would later become evidence in the case. His DNA was found there and on four of the rape victims in Harlem.-->

The Astor trial jurors on Wednesday were reviewing Anthony Marshall’s acquisition of Brooke Astor’s Cove End property, in Northeast Harbor, Me. They also asked the judge “whether a durable power of attorney supersedes a will,” according to the New York Times. Deliberations continue today.

Gov. David Paterson signed a law that will create a one-year window for 9/11-related legal claims against New York City, affecting potential litigants who are currently ineligible because of time-restrictions. The Bloomberg administration said the law could invite as many as 3,000 lawsuits against the city and “cost New York City ‘hundreds of millions' of dollars in damages,” the New York Law Journal reports.