That is absolutely going to be reversed. There is no way that stands. Alright lemme go take a pee...lemme make peepee... I wanna make peepee and poopie and pee pee... Who's that? Why, it's Supreme Court Justice Gerald Garson, taped by the Brooklyn DA's office. Garson is on trial for accepting bribes from lawyers while presiding over divorce cases - and the accusations are incredible. The 74-year-old jurist, who is now suspended, allegedly accepted cash,......

It’s been a couple of year since Baltimore auteur John Waters has brought a new movie to the silver screen but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been as busy as ever. Whether it’s guest starring on TV shows or curating art exhibits, Waters puts his distinctive, off kilter imprint on anything he’s involved in, even the lowly mix tape. After adding oddity to your holiday soundtrack with his Christmas CD A John Waters Christmas, Waters......

-- What kind of jackass pays $6 for a hotdog on the street? -- Attention hacker graffiti supernerd artists: the R&D Fellows Program at Eyebeam is accepting applications. -- Ouch! Firing DJ Star cost Power105.1 20% of its morning audience. -- Pot princess Julia Diaco is looking slutastic in Blender. Or do you prefer your bimbos from Long Island? -- Toughguy writer Mickey Spillane has died; did you know he was born in Brooklyn......

If there was one thing the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui needed, it's having Rudy Giuliani testifying about the horrors of September 11. The NY Post practically makes it a marquee event, saying that Giuliani will go "eyeball to eyeball" with the "Evil Zac." If only the trial were broadcast on Court TV - this would be some fascinating TV, with Moussaoui's glowering and Giuliani's dramatic retelling of the events of the day. The federal......

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Who knew petsitting could be fraught with million dollar lawsuits? A Manhattan family is suing a family friend's friend for failing to return their dog. Martin Klein says that Ted Kohl was supposed to watch their Yorkshire terrier Hershe while the family was on vacation, starting November 20. However, Kohl gave the dog to his friend Gayle Fisher Worth when he was sentenced to prison on November 28. Yes - Kohl, a contractor, had pleaded......

You've seen Court TV's new campaign around - taxi cabs have signs that say "Getaway Car" and posters say "The Cover Up." But it seems the sidewalk posters - "The Perp Walk" - are on the wrong side of law, as the Department of Transportation is saying they are investigating whether or not the ads are in violation of city law. That's right: If unscooped dog poop is in violation of city law, then you......

What Gothamist would do to be present at the voir dire stage of John Gotti Jr.'s racketeering trial! Yesterday, potential jurors were grilled about their pop culture knowledge of the mob, and it sounded amazing. The guy "wearing a Hawaiian shirt, shorts and black socks" admitted (!) he wrote that Al Capone was the "person he leasted admired" in order to not be chosen, but was kept in the pool, while the woman who said......

Michael Jackson was found not guilty on all counts brought against him. This means defense attorney Thomas Mesereau is 1-for-2 in getting seemingly guilty celebrities off (we were mistaken in thinking he was Robert Blake's attorney during the acquittal; Gothamist guesses Mesereau won't be getting that "Lawyer to Stars Who Can't Pay So Good" plaque) and/or that the California legal system sucks. All Gothamist has to say is that no other parent can consider themselves......

While it's clear that NY Times New York Region > Public Lives: Seeking Courtroom Drama, From Every Angle" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/nyregion/04profile.html?pagewanted=all">Public Lives profilee Henry S. Schleiff, head of Court TV, is a smart man, he betrays any illusion of being in touch with pop culture. Sure, he may have attempted to get a job at Saturday Night Live, but we can pretty much see why. Check out this from the article:"Thanks to Michael Jackson, one can no......

Gothamist has been riveted by the recent shocking turn of events in the crime world: Bonnano family boss Joseph Massino (right), currently in prison, deciding to turn informant to the Feds and revealing that acting Bonnano don Vincent "Gorgeous Vinnie" Basciano murdered another associate, as well as wanted to kill a federal prosecutor. Massino was also the one who told the Feds about the bodies buried in the Queens. Because of this betrayal, Massino's own......

As some of us spent our Saturday battling seniors-with-shopping-carts (a deadly combination, Gothamist tells you) about three miles uptown from the Idiotarod, some New Yorkers headed to the Forensics Files casting day. We read that Forensics Files actually does four open casting calls a year and they even cast animals (Philadelphia's City Paper writes, "a goat that pees on command has been the veteran scene-stealer"). While there were no peeing animals at this audition, special......

For anyone who has wanted to play a corpse, random person who finds the body, a red herring of a suspect, the cop who gets the doughnuts (Profaci!!), or a concerned juror on Law & Order, you'll still have to wait (or not, if you have a SAG card and "the look"). However, Court TV’s Forensic Files is holding an open casting call to find people to reenact mysteries and crimes for the series tomorrow......

The FBI is digging up a vacant lot in Queens, looking for bodies of Gambino crime family victims. The Feds think the body of Gotti neighbor John Favara, who had accidentally run over John Gotti's 12 year-old son in 1980, is buried at Ruby Street and Blake Avenue. Gotti's widow says John didn't order the hit (they were conveniently out of town), but Gothamist has to side with the Feds on this one: People usually......

Wait a second...there's news from outside of New York City? Our timbers were shivered when the national media, suffering from the same RNCFS (Republican National Convention Fatigue Syndrome) that many New Yorkers are going through, started to detail other stories with as much attention, even bumping convention highlights to the 2nd or 3rd story of newscasts. The stories are: - Dismissal of rape charges against Kobe Bryant - Court TV has a thorough section devoted......

The idea of convicted murderer Joel Steinberg going free has sent the NYC press into a frenzy, with the Daily News going as far as editorializing what New Yorkers should do when they see Steinberg on the cover. Steinberg became a symbol of horror when his 6 year-old adopted daugther, Lisa, was found viciously beaten, in the squalor of his Greenwich Village brownstone. Steinberg, a wealthy attorney, and his former lover Hedda Nussbaum were charged......

Slices of chocolate cake and cheese: That's what Whole Foods says Beatrice Dyer tried to shoplift, prompting them to ban her from the TimeWarner Center store. However, 81 year-old Dyer tells the Post that guards accosted her before she could pay and forced her to sign a statement saying she'd never return to Whole Foods - and that she wouldn't be so crazy as to risk shoplifting for cake and cheese. Naturally, Whole Foods disagrees,......

If you're ever sucked into a vortex of court proceedings because your boss may or may not have been helping a lifestyle doyenne get out on a stock deal early, know that there may be hope for your post-court professional life yet: The Daily News' Rush & Molloy report that former stockbroker's assistant Douglas Faneuil, pivotal in the Martha Stewart fraud case, has been working at Debs & Co. gallery, which is co-owned by Choire......

The whole Michael Jackson insanity is neverending. Who would have thought that the day would come when Jackson's lawyers would be working with the police to arrange for his surrender? Sadly, the multiple counts of child molestation are not so much a surprise as the request for $3 million bail. Fox News' Roger Friedman has sources who tell him the accuser is a cancer patient, whose apparent "last wish" was to meet Jackson: "Jackson paid......

The latest twist in the saga of mother-son grifters, Sante and Kenneth Kimes, is that Kenneth will plead guilty to the 1998 murder of LA businessman David Kazdin. In return, Kenneth, already convicted for the 1998 murder of Irene Silverman on the Upper East Side, will get a life sentence (not the death penalty) while testifying against his mother, who was charged in the LA murder as well as convicted in the Silverman murder.......

Christopher Rocancourt, the dashing Frenchman who convinced people he was a Rockefeller and swindled them out of money, is back in the NY area, facing charges. Times reporter Andy Newman's article is full of great description, like how Rocancourt "wore a look of wary, weary sulkiness" when he was read his rights. Court TV has extensive coverage of Rocancourt's dalliances. In Midtown East, Irish bar owner Conrad Gallagher was arrested outside his pub, Traffic, at......

The Robert Blake trial is tawdry but it is more fascinating when you take a look at the transcripts of a conversation he had with Bonnie Blakely, after she told him she wanted to keep the baby. Blake flips out, and says things like "You lied to me, you double-crossed me, you double dealt me, and that's who you are...I'm not going to lie about who you are and what you are. 'Cause that's......