Opponents of New York's ban on so-called gravity knives have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and address what the writ claims is a circuit split over vagueness constitutional challenges ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The knife is one of mankind's oldest and most versatile tools, with origins that go back more than 2 million years. Metal blades appeared ...

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 ...

U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty said the state law, passed in the 1950s, was too vague in its application by the NYPD and the Manhattan DA's office for the plaintiff to determine whether he was within ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...