“It’s a huge victory — they were facing 200 years,” said their lawyer, Norman Steiner

A fed up family was accused of taking things into their own hands and charged with kidnapping their own children from the City’s Foster Care system. The case drew national attention after the family went missing and were found in a van out of state. Norm negotiated a deal that had serious felony charges that carried with multi-century prison sentence potentially reduced to a misdemeanor.

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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.

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Building Owner charged with manslaughter in a construction related tragedy

At a time when cranes were collapsing and people were getting killed in construction incidents, Kings County chose to indict a building owner for manslaughter. The building owner retained Norm. Norm believed the matter was entirely civil in nature and should not be in criminal court.

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