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rendered against Ronald DeFeo, Jr. in Supreme Court, Suffolk County, for the killings of six family members at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, on November 13, 1974.", "src": [ 12, 13 ] }, { "date": "1978-03-27", "label": "Direct appeal affirmed", "text": "The Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed DeFeo's judgment of conviction in a decision and order later cited as People v. DeFeo, 61 A.D.2d 1141.", "src": [ 13 ] }, { "date": "2000-09-29", "label": "CPL 440 motion denied", "text": "County Court, Suffolk County, denied DeFeo's motion under CPL 440.10 and 440.30(1-a) to vacate the 1975 judgment of conviction.", "src": [ 12 ] }, { "date": "2002-06-17", "label": "People v. DeFeo (2002)", "text": "The Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed the 2000 order denying DeFeo's motion to vacate his conviction.", "src": [ 12 ] }, { "date": "2003-08-18", "label": "People v. DeFeo (2003)", "text": "The Appellate Division, Second Department, denied DeFeo's application for a writ of error coram nobis and his motion for summary judgment on that application.", "src": [ 13 ] } ], "sections": [ { "id": "history", "heading": "History", "paragraphs": [ "The village was incorporated on March 3, 1894.[2]", "Amityville is also the site of a well-known criminal case. On November 13, 1974, six members of a family were killed at a house at 112 Ocean Avenue in the village; Ronald DeFeo, Jr. was convicted and a judgment of conviction was rendered against him in Supreme Court, Suffolk County, on December 4, 1975.[12][13]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "New York State's own touring-route description places NY 27A, Montauk Highway, running through Amityville en route to Bay Shore and points east, and separately identifies Amityville as the southern terminus of NY 110, which runs north from NY 27A through Huntington to Halesite.[9][10]", "The New York State Department of Transportation's touring-route inventory does not separately describe Amityville's local streets, which are outside the state highway system; road ownership within the village is addressed in the government section below.[9]" ] }, { "id": "law", "heading": "Law and legal history", "paragraphs": [ "The Village's own code does not appear to contain a chapter specifically retitled \"Notification of Defects\" comparable to those adopted by the neighboring Town of Babylon and Village of Lindenhurst. Instead, Village Code § 152-8, \"Maintenance of sidewalks; liability,\" places the duty to keep an abutting sidewalk in repair, and the liability for injury caused by a defective sidewalk, on the owner or occupant of the adjoining property, who must \"indemnify and hold the Village harmless from any such claim for injury or damage.\"[7] Under that section the Village itself may order repairs, after ten days' written notice to the owner, and charge the cost to the property.[7] For road and highway defects generally, New York Village Law § 6-628 supplies the default rule statewide: no civil action may be maintained against a village for injury from a defective, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed street, highway, bridge, culvert or sidewalk, or from snow or ice on one, unless written notice of the condition was actually given to the village clerk and the village then failed to correct it within a reasonable time.[8]", "Amityville is also the site of a widely reported homicide case. Ronald DeFeo, Jr. was convicted in Supreme Court, Suffolk County, of killing six members of his family at 112 Ocean Avenue on November 13, 1974; a judgment of conviction was rendered against him on December 4, 1975.[12][13] The Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed that judgment on direct appeal in a decision and order dated March 27, 1978, cited in later published opinions as People v. DeFeo, 61 A.D.2d 1141 (2d Dept. 1978).[13] DeFeo later sought to vacate the conviction: County Court, Suffolk County (Mullin, J.), denied a motion under CPL 440.10 and 440.30(1-a) on September 29, 2000, and the Second Department affirmed that denial in People v. DeFeo, 295 A.D.2d 532 (2d Dept. 2002), finding no nonfrivolous issue for appeal.[12] In 2003 the Second Department separately denied DeFeo's application for a writ of error coram nobis (and a related motion for summary judgment) seeking to vacate the 1978 appellate affirmance on the ground of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, holding he had not established such ineffectiveness under Jones v. Barnes, 463 U.S. 745 (1983).[13]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "The Village maintains its own police department, headquartered at 21 Ireland Place, Amityville, NY 11701 (631-264-0400), and its own Village Justice Court, on the second floor of the same building (631-691-3303), which has jurisdiction over misdemeanor criminal, Vehicle and Traffic Law, and village ordinance violations occurring within the village and conducts hearings, trials, arraignments and issues warrants and orders of protection.[3][4] Suffolk County's Traffic and Parking Violations Agency separately adjudicates parking summonses, red-light-camera citations, and moving violations in the \"five western towns\" of Suffolk County, which include the Town of Babylon in which Amityville sits.[11]", "Village Code § 152-8 places responsibility for sidewalk repair and liability on abutting property owners rather than the Village itself, while the general state rule of Village Law § 6-628 governs claims over defective streets, highways and other village-owned infrastructure absent a customized local law.[7][8]" ] } ], "legalCases": [ { "name": "People v. DeFeo", "citation": "295 A.D.2d 532, 744 N.Y.S.2d 681 (2d Dept. 2002)", "court": "New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department", "year": 2002, "connection": "Appeal from an order of County Court, Suffolk County, denying Ronald DeFeo, Jr.'s motion under CPL 440.10 and 440.30(1-a) to vacate his December 4, 1975 judgment of conviction for the November 13, 1974 killings at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville.", "holding": "Affirmed the order denying the motion to vacate. The court agreed with assigned appellate counsel that the record presented no nonfrivolous issues that could be raised on appeal and granted counsel's application to withdraw.", "src": [ 12 ] }, { "name": "People v. DeFeo", "citation": "307 A.D.2d 1000, 763 N.Y.S.2d 495 (2d Dept. 2003)", "court": "New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department", "year": 2003, "connection": "Application by Ronald DeFeo, Jr. for a writ of error coram nobis to vacate this Court's March 27, 1978 decision and order (People v. DeFeo, 61 A.D.2d 1141) affirming his 1975 conviction, on the ground of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel.", "holding": "Denied the application and a related motion for summary judgment, holding DeFeo had not established that he was denied the effective assistance of appellate counsel, citing Jones v. 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