The death last week of Sheila Abdus-Salaam, who was the first female black judge on New York state's highest court, is being called "suspicious" by police Stephanie Petit is a Senior News Editor on ...

On Wednesday afternoon, the country lost New York Court of Appeals Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam. The judge served New York state for decades as both a State Supreme Court justice in Manhattan and later ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Judge Abdus-Salaam attended Columbia Law School with former attorney general Eric Holder and was considered a trailblazer by many ...

The death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first African-American woman to serve on New York state’s highest court, is not considered suspicious, and the investigation points to a possible suicide, ...

On Wednesday afternoon, the body of New York Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam was found in the Hudson River, marking an incredibly sad day for the country. New York City Police Department sources reported ...

The New York City Police Department now says that state Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam’s death is “suspicious” after officials last week told the Associated Press that Abdus-Salaam’s drowning death was ...

"Those of us who loved (the judge) and knew her well do not believe that these unfounded conclusions have any basis in reality," said Rev. Gregory Jacobs, Abdus-Salaam's husband. The husband of Judge ...

The death of Sheila Abdus-Salaam has been ruled a suicide. Abdus-Salaam — the first female muslim judge to be appointed to New York’s highest court — drowned herself, the New York City Office of Chief ...

The death of Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam, whose body was found in the Hudson River, has been declared by the NYPD as a ‘suspicious,” exactly one week after her body surfaced. Abdus-Salaam, who served ...

April 17, 2017, 11:40 a.m.: In the days after Sheila Abdus-Salaam's death, early reports that she was a practicing Muslim began to be called into question. At least one person who knew Abdus-Salaam ...

Last week, the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, issued two separate rulings in two closely related cases to shape how cases are argued before juries. In People v. Williams and ...