LIVINGSTON COUNTY – A Geneseo and Dansville attorney will be featured in Friday's episode of Dateline. NBC Dateline was in Geneseo in November 2011 to interview Geneseo attorney Kevin Van Allen and Dansville attorney John Putney whose murder case is receiving national attention. Both Van Allen and Putney are locally known for their defense work in Livingston County. They talked with Dateline about their experiences as defense counsel in … [Read more...]
NBC Dateline Interviews Geneseo and Dansville Attorneys
LIVINGSTON COUNTY – NBC Dateline was in Geneseo Wednesday to hear from two local attorneys whose murder case is receiving national attention. Geneseo attorney Kevin Van Allen and Dansville attorney John Putney, both locally known for their defense work in Livingston County, talked with Dateline about their experiences as defense counsel in Michael Beard's high-profile criminal case in Steuben County. The episode will most likely air in … [Read more...]
Shackled Fox Sentenced and Sent to State Prison
LIVINGSTON COUNTY – It was all about the victim's family in the county courthouse Friday afternoon, when Alan Fox was finally sentenced after pleading guilty to Attempted Sex Abuse in the First Degree, an E felony, in November 2014, for sexually molesting his five-year-old foster daughter in the summer of 2013. The court waited at the ready for a full 20 minutes for the biological parents, and their friends and family, to arrive and watch … [Read more...]
Pastor Fox Sentencing Postponed by 24 Hours
LIVINGSTON COUNTY – The sentencing date for the man who sexually abused a five year old foster daughter has been postponed for a day on a legal technicality. Pastor Alan Fox, 60, was scheduled for sentencing in the Livingston County Courthouse at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, and after more than an hour and a half of conferences with lawyers on their cases, including Fox's lawyer John Putney, county judge Dennis Cohen ruled in favor of Putney's … [Read more...]