Gerald Mollen - Experience

As Broome County’s DA, Jerry Mollen has personally prosecuted some of the most heinous criminals in Broome County history. 

But the DA doesn’t just prosecute. He manages a staff of 31 individuals, including 16 Assistant DAs and 4 Investigators. Under Jerry’s leadership, the Broome County DA’s Office has prosecuted and won convictions in thousands of felony cases involving murder, rape, child molestation, domestic violence, robbery, burglary, assault, DWI, and drug trafficking. 

Illegal drugs and drug-related crime are a growing threat across the nation and here at home, and the Broome County DA’s Office has long been aggressive in its pursuit of the individuals and organizations who trade in illegal drugs in our community – especially repeat offenders, violent offenders, and narcotics entrepreneurs from out-of-town.

But when it comes to prosecuting drug-dependent non-violent first-time drug offenders, the Broome County DA’s Office under Jerry Mollen’s leadership has appropriately used alternative means to prosecute offenders - using the threat of incarceration as a way to achieve treatment and rehabilitation.  Jerry’s policy of using Drug Court and treatment options  for non-violent first-time offenders is both smart and compassionate –  saving money and lives.

Recidivism rates for first-time non-violent offenders are much lower when they are given the opportunity to avoid prison by choosing treatment. Crime goes down, there are fewer repeat offenders, and valuable prison space is reserved for truly dangerous felons. Taxpayers save millions, and troubled addicts are given a chance to turn their lives around.

  • Over three decades of public service to the people of Broome County
    • Appointed Assistant County Attorney in 1977
    • Appointed Assistant New York State Attorney General in 1979
    • Appointed Assistant District Attorney in 1980
    • Appointed Senior Assistant District Attorney in 1981
    • Appointed Chief Assistant District Attorney in 1982
    • Appointed District Attorney in 1987
    • Elected Broome County District Attorney in 1987
    • Re-Elected Broome County District Attorney
      1991, 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007
  • Manages a staff of 31 employees, including 16 Assistant District Attorneys
    and 4 investigators
  • Supervises the prosecution of all state criminal cases in Broome County
  • Personally tried over 60 felony cases in Broome County Court, including homicides, sexual assault, child abuse, drug trafficking and violent crime.

LIST OF SOME OF THE MAJOR CASES LITIGATED BY GERALD MOLLEN

  • 1983 - Herman Dennis Neu and Thomas Marlowe convicted for the convenience store murder of a 22 year old store clerk after committing a robbery at the store
  • 1983 - Sandra and Gerald Neer convicted of Manslaughter and Criminally Negligent Homicide respectively for the child-abuse killing of their four year old daughter in their Port Crane home
  • 1985 - William Kennedy and William Cardman, members of a Florida motorcycle gang, convicted for the robbery and murder of a Johnson City businessman in his home
  • 1988 - Michael Wagner convicted for the murder for the stabbing death of an eleven year old boy in Binghamton
  • 1989 - Timothy Vail convicted for the rape and murder of a pregnant woman in the Binghamton law office where she worked
  • 1990 - Jon Mead and Keith Goodman convicted for the murder of a retired Windsor man (Mead and Goodman also killed three others in Mississippi before being apprehended)
  • 1992 - Alex Vega convicted for the rape and murder of a forty-eight year old woman who had been travelling to Albany from Owego when her car broke down on Route 88
  • 1995 - George Miller convicted by plea for the rape and murder of a four year old girl in Binghamton
  • 2003 - Jeffrey Nabinger and David Sweat convicted by plea for the murder of a Broome County Deputy Sheriff in Kirkwood (a capital murder case which resulted in both defendants pleading guilty to Murder in the First Degree and being sentenced to life without parole)
  • 2004-2005 - Vernon Parker, Jr. and Robert William, Jr. convicted for the execution-style murder of a fourteen year old girl and her mother in their Binghamton home before their scheduled testimony in a sex abuse trial in Baltimore (a capital murder case which resulted in both defendants being convicted after trial of Murder in the First Degree and sentenced to life without parole)
  • 2010 - William Kenyon convicted of Manslaughter in the First Degree for killing his girlfriend in Johnson City in 2009 and was sentenced as a persistent felony offender to 25 years to life in prison.
  • 2010 - Ashley and Anthony Carnevale, III, were both convicted of Murder for their roles in killing a woman and attempting to kill a man in Windsor in 2009, during the course of attempting to steal drugs, and were both sentenced to prison terms with maximum terms of life.
  • 2011 - Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, after being found to be incapacitated to stand trial for several months, returned to Broome County Court and entered a plea of guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree for stabbing a Binghamton University professor to death in 2009, with the understanding that in September he would be sentenced to a 15 year prison term and then be deported upon completion of his prison term to his native country of Saudi Arabia.

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P. O. Box 2636   |   Binghamton, NY 13902