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A young woman from a small town in Texas moves to New York with aspirations of becoming a dancer. Six months into her dream, the young woman, 25-year-old Laura Garza, meets the son of a deputy police chief, Michael Mele, at a Manhattan club.

After the long trek to Mele's Orange County apartment -- 60 miles away from the city -- Garza sees signs that Mele may have another girlfriend and freaks out, wanting Mele to drive her back. It's late, Mele doesn't want to, and so he chokes the young woman to death. Mele admitted the crime this week and agreed to go to jail for 23 years, reports the New York Post.

If you don't know the Wu-Tang Clan, this is a case involving criminal law and not something that will involve a New York City Immigration Lawyer.

A recently-released, 94-page FBI document outlining the alleged crimes of Wu-Tang Clan co-founder Ol' Dirty Bastard may have a positive effect on the group's street cred, but negative consequences for the group's legal problems.

The value of hiring a good New York City criminal lawyer.

What criminal penalty would you expect for Naisha Sutton, the 26-year-old woman who drove without a license, made an illegal turn, struck and killed a motorcyclist, and then fled the scene? If you guessed years and years, guess again.

In a set of facts that can make any New York City employment law lawyer cringe, an Asian-American employee was taunted so badly at his workplace for his race, that he is believed to have turned a gun on himself, committing suicide.

What happened to Danny Chen did not happen just at any workplace. It happened in the U.S. military. Now eight soldiers can face manslaughter charges for their roles in the Asian military death, reports the New York Post.

If Jerome Isaac was unhappy with how his boss treated him, he could have called a NYC employment law attorney. Instead, the maniac allegedly set fire to his former employer, killing her in the elevator where she lived.

Delores Gillespie was a well-loved resident in her Brooklyn neighborhood, reports the New York Post. She was known to have a kind heart, and her kindness showed when she let a down-on-his-luck Isaac perform work around her Prospect Heights apartment.

Usually when a consumer product leads to death, family members will want to contact a Manhattan product liability attorney or a New York City products liability lawyer. But while a Louis Vuitton purse may have ultimately led to Tracey Young’s death, family members will probably be speaking to a NYC criminal lawyer first.

Retired NYPD cop Clarence Young was apparently cash-strapped, but ham-strung with a high-priced wife, reports the New York Post. When the stress over picking the right Christmas gift was too much for the muscled 49-year-old man, he shot his wife ten times.

This summer, Guerino Annarumma blogged that his estranged wife was "going to pay for whatever [she] did." He added that he "don't play no games" before saying "bye bye bye," reports the New York Post.

What fueled Annarumma's rant was that he suspected his wife, Olga Annarumma, had married him solely for the Green Card. After earning the right to stay, the wife apparently wanted nothing to do with the husband and filed for divorce, reports the Post.

And so hours before the couple's divorce hearing, Guerino Annarumma shot his immigrant wife and her adult daughter. The daughter was killed and Olga Annarumma is hanging on to life.

A bouncer at the notorious Pit Lounge in the Bronx was killed by a patron who had earlier been kicked out of the club. The Pit Lounge has its share of past criminal troubles, and the Pit Lounge bouncer murder may spell the end of the nightclub.

Terrence Drayton, a 26-year-old father of two, was shot through the neck early Sunday morning, reports the New York Post. The police believe that the shot was intended for another bouncer and that Drayton was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Man stabs and strangles woman he used to date. Then he tries to stab and kill himself. Now he says he was possessed in a note confessing the killing.

Bakary Camara, 41, once dated 36-year-old Italian immigrant Rita Morelli, reports the New York Daily News. It’s not clear how long they dated, or when they broke up, but on November 23rd Camara killed Morelli by strangling her and stabbing her in the throat and chest.

A man was killed at a New York City nightclub Monday night when several famous athletes were out celebrating a Giants wide receiver’s birthday.

The Victor Cruz birthday shooting is now the second shooting involving a Giants wide receiver in recent years, reports the New York Post. In 2009, Plaxico Burress famously shot himself in the leg at a nightclub and ended up spending 20 months in jail.