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Walter Schreiber is a judge based in Manhattan, New York City.

Arraignments[]

  • Arraigned the defendant on $100,000 bail.
  • Arraigned the defendant on $10,000 bail.

Cases tried[]

  • Granted the defense's motion to suppress a witness' photo identification on the grounds that Kincaid might have coached the witness.
  • Denied the defense's motion suppress the testimony of Claire Kincaid and Janet Rudman on the grounds that Thayer was represented by counsel citing that Kincaid was acting as a private citizen who resigned from the DA's office at the time.
  • Allowed Thayer's wife to testify for the prosecution as long as none of her testimony derives from conversations from Thayer.
  • Demanded Thayer confess in court fully when he doesn't answer his or Executive ADA Stone's questions directly.
  • Granted the prosecution's motion to amend the inditement to one count of larceny by extortion.
  • Denied the defense's motion to dismiss the charges.
  • Ordered ADA Ross to instruct the grand jury to disregard her question about the defendant's priors.
  • Granted the defense's motion to stop the prosecution from representing the case to the grand jury with a new theory and evidence that a witness perjured himself.
  • Denied the defense's motion to dismiss on the grounds the murder victim died in the hospital and was alive at the time the hospital harvested her organs.
  • Ruled that the prosecution could try both Cosgrove and Comacho simultaneously for the murder of Nancy O'Neal.
  • Accepted a plea of guilty for murder in the first degree for killing Tommy Nagi from the defendant.
  • Sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment.
  • Plea and sentence both overturned by Appellate Judge Marilyn Haynes and the case went to trial.
  • After the defendant is found guilty at trial, Schreiber limited both presentations for sentencing.
    • The prosecution is only allowed to call their M.E., Elizabeth Rodgers, to the stand while the defense is allowed to call a former teacher but will allow the prosecution to introduce prior bad juvenile acts.
  • Ruled that the jury must be unanimous in their decision of whether the defendant is sentenced to either death or life imprisonment. If the jury is deadlocked, Schreiber will impose a sentence of 20-25 years to life imprisonment.

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