Public Order / Official Conduct Defense | Penal Law 205.55
New York Hindering Prosecution in the Third Degree Lawyer
Hindering Prosecution in the Third Degree cases can involve allegations of helping another person avoid prosecution, harboring, warning, providing aid, concealing evidence, intent, and relationship context. These charges often arise during stressful police encounters, court proceedings, domestic disputes, workplace issues, or investigations involving another person.
Lebedin Kofman LLP represents clients in New York false-reporting, hindering prosecution, escape, official misconduct, obstruction, resisting arrest, and related criminal cases across New York City, Nassau County, and Suffolk County.
Call 646-663-4430 or contact the firm for a confidential consultation.
Issues that may matter
- knowledge of the underlying offense
- alleged assistance to another person
- communications and relationship context
- concealment or harboring claims
- co-defendant issues
- witness credibility
- search and seizure issues
- grand jury strategy
Defense approach
These cases often depend on intent, knowledge, context, and timing. Defense work may include preserving recordings, messages, call logs, body-camera footage, court papers, facility records, and witness accounts. In many cases, the defense must separate confusion, panic, disputed facts, or bad assumptions from proof of a crime.
Where the case involves public employment, licensing, immigration, or an agency investigation, the defense should account for both the criminal case and the collateral consequences that can follow.
Related pages
- Resisting Arrest
- Obstruction of Governmental Administration
- False Written Statements
- Perjury
- Tampering With Physical Evidence
- Bench Warrants
- Public Corruption
- Criminal Defense
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Frequently asked questions
What should I do after a false-report, hindering, escape, or official-misconduct arrest?
Speak with defense counsel before making statements to police, employers, agencies, or co-defendants. Preserve records, messages, call logs, court documents, and witness information.
Can intent or knowledge be challenged in these cases?
Yes. Many of these charges depend heavily on what the person knew, intended, or understood at the time. Records, communications, video, witness accounts, and the exact statutory theory can be central.
Contact Lebedin Kofman LLP
If you are charged with false reporting, hindering prosecution, escape, official misconduct, obstruction, or a related offense, call 646-663-4430 or contact Lebedin Kofman LLP.