Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told a judge he "won't be there" for his upcoming retrial if he remains at Rikers Island.
Eduardo Mendez, 51, of Guatemala, was arrested two years ago in New York City for the 1994 rape of a 36-year-old woman in Attleboro, Bristol District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III’s office.
Designed to gather and preserve biological evidence found on the body of a person reporting a sexual assault, it introduced standardized forensics into the investigation of rape where there had previously been no common protocol.
President Donald Trump has promised a wave of deportations, which has caused fear and anxiety in New York City.
A federal judge in New York City says two luxury real estate brokers and their brother accused of raping dozens of women over two decades will remain in jail to await their trial on sex trafficking charges.