UTICA, NY (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) — One of the two remaining defendants in the Robert Brooks trial found out his fate on Friday, following his conviction on murder charges. First reported by the Daily ...

New York State has agreed to pay a $24 million settlement to the family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death by Department of Corrections officers while in custody at an upstate prison, state ...

Robert Brooks Jr. still vividly remembers learning his father would never come home from prison. “My grandmother called me and told me to get to her house as soon as I can,” he recalls. “And she had ...

New York state has agreed to pay $24 million to the family of Robert Brooks, the Rochester-area man who was fatally beaten by officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in December 2024.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After three days of deliberation, the jury in the Robert Brooks case has found one of three corrections officers guilty of ...

A former Marcy correction officer — who was acquitted of charges in Brooks' beating — was put in a jury pool for another trial connected to the same beating. A judge says Matthew Galliher is now ...