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Downtown Docket: Falafel Cart Stabbing Trial Begins

By DNAinfo Staff on December 11, 2009 11:06am

By Shayna Jacobs

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — The trial of a man charged with stabbing a student to death after an altercation on a Midtown falafel cart line began Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court. [nydailynews.com]

A man falsely convicted of rape because a woman told police a false story was officially exonerated in Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday. William McCaffrey spent four years incarcerated until Biurny Peguero Gonzalez recently came forward to confess her story was untrue. [dnainfo]

Brien Santarlas, 33, a former Ropes and Gray attorney, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to securities fraud in connection to the Raj Rajaratnam scandal. [Associated Press]