About The Author
Rogers Hicks, a 40-year experienced Paralegal having established the business Paralegal & Legal Assistance Services in 1993, have worked primarily on Criminal Appeals and Post-conviction Remedies with a number of Law Offices in Buffalo and New York City where he assists in reviewing and developing post-conviction claims in coordination with licensed attorneys.
Mr. Hicks, on June 4, 1993, drafted and presented a Petition on behalf of U.S. Citizens of Afro-American descent to the United Nations World Court c/o Centre for Human Rights, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Geneva, Switzerland (source: Challenger News, Sept. 28, 1994, Vol. 30, No. 39: “UN Appointee to Hold Hearings on Racism in the United States”). His book publication, RACE JUSTICE: Judicial Atrocities Committed Against People of Color is an adaptation of the UN Petition.
Hicks’ recent work relates to a motion filed on July 1, 2026, in NYS Supreme Court, Erie County, asking the court to vacate Benjamin Castricone’s conviction on grounds of actual innocence. Castricone who was convicted by an all-white jury and served 12 years in prison for a robbery which now later discovered evidence, including a fingerprint and confessions from the actual perpetrators, establish Castricone’s actual innocence Press Release and Social Media - Youtube Video. The motion also reflects the decades-long work of Hicks, who has worked on the case for approximately thirty-three years. Hicks is credited with the longevity and persistence behind the investigation, including efforts to locate and develop evidence from the actual perpetrators, and with helping research the factual and legal basis for the motion.
Journey and Achievements
To date, he has worked with attorneys on numerous cases, notably with New York City criminal defense firm Flood, Holmes & Tipograph and Washington, D.C. attorney Mary K. O'Melveny, where he assisted with the criminal appeals work in one of the most publicized cases in New York history, in which members of alleged revolutionary groups including the Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army, and Black Panther Party were charged with the robbery of an armored Brink's truck of $1.6 million and the murder of an armored-car guard and two Nyack, New York police officers in 1981.
Rogers Hicks received a Bachelor's Degree with a concentration in Paralegal studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo, concentrating primarily in Civil Rights Law and Criminal Law and Procedure.
The event culminated in the Reader's Digest Investigative Report, "Terror Network, U.S.A." (December 1984)
Hicks has argued twice before New York's highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and is credited with numerous precedent-setting decisions affecting civil rights and liberties.
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