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Decisions of Interest

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
December 27, 2012

Mother Sanctioned for Not Preventing Witness from Destroying Evidence

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Sunshine has declared that a mother involved in a custody dispute with her children's father cannot present evidence contained in a diary, now destroyed, that was kept by her sister, who now claims that she was sexually abused in the past by her then-brother-in-law. S.B. v. U.B., [Index Number Redacted by Court], NYLJ 1202577574190, at *1 (Sup., KI, Decided Oct. 31, 2012) (Sunshine, J.).

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