Upstate’s ‘Serial Spitter’ Dons Saliva Shield in Court
In court this week, defense attorney Norman Steiner requested the contraption be removed because he said it makes his client look guilty. He also said Poulos denies ever spitting on his previous lawyers, according to the New York Post.
“I meet with him all the time. I sit a foot across from him. I have no fear of him. I don’t think he’s ever going to spit on me,” Steiner told the Post, which reported the attorney Poulos spat on in 2014 attended the retrial.
‘CSI’ has ruined the American justice system
Defense lawyer Norman Steiner has seen the way “CSI” has changed criminal courtrooms.
“I remember back to the ’90s when we were doing a lot of buy and bust cases,” he said. The defense would always ask why law enforcement hadn’t looked for fingerprints on the plastic bags containing drugs, but “it never worked back then. Half the judges would sort of make a face when you were making the argument. They were like, ‘You’re crazy, no one’s going to do that on a drug case.’ The only time fingerprinting occurred was on burglary and in homicide cases, and jurors were fine with it.”
Qns. ‘kidnap’ brood found in filthy van
Their lawyer, Norman Steiner, said the couple took the children because they believed at least one child was being sexually molested. Steiner would not elaborate. Nadal and Payne took off with their children Sept. 19 during a supervised visit, authorities said.
Rich-kid thief jailed
The so-called “boarding school bandit” — a wealthy psychotherapist’s son from New Rochelle — will spend the next year in prison for a one-night string of three Central Park armed robberies. In pleading guilty to three counts of felony robbery, Jesse Wasserman, 18, admitted yesterday that he rifled through the victim’s pockets for cash and goods while his 19-year-old buddy brandished a .357 Magnum.