Removal Recommended for (Dem) Judge Who Helped Defendant Escape

New York Law Journal ^ | 11-28-2005 | Tom Perrotta

[SauronOfMordor]

I would have enjoyed seeing the judge arrested in her own courtroom for obstruction of justice

[mtbopfuyn]

Too many questions here to say if she needed to be removed from the bench or not. Why did the guy have to leave the courtroom and what reasons were given to interupt court to have a detective question him? There's more to this shady story.

[Titan Magroyne]

"Removal Recommended for (Dem) Judge Who Helped Defendant Escape"

Recommended? Only recommended? She thwarted a detective trying to do his job, and in the presence of the entire court. Grrrrrrrrrrrr

[GOPJ]

The Queens judge who sparked an uproar when she helped a defendant escape arrest through a back exit of the courthouse should be removed from the bench...

The judge isn't above the law. She should be treated as any other law breaker..

[Celtic Conservative]

Oh, well she's sorry. that's different. never mind /sarcasm>

[Brilliant]

It sure did take them a long time to figure out the obvious.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Recommended? Only recommended?

Simmer down. The way the process works is that a panel reviews the evidence and then makes a recommendation to the NY Court of Appeals. The court then imposes the "sentence." It is uncommon for the court to reject the recommendation.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Why did the guy have to leave the courtroom and what reasons were given to interupt court to have a detective question him? There's more to this shady story.

No, it is very typical for the police to pick up defendants outside the courtroom for questioning or arrest. If you think about it, why wouldn't the police prefer to pick up a defendant when he is in a secure court house, having gone through a metal detector, etc., in lieu of going to his home and placing themselves in danger?

[Brilliant]

"I take into consideration that respondent has been a role model for women of color," Hernandez wrote.

i.e., "I'm O.K. with criminals sitting on the judicial bench, as long as they are black."

[grey_whiskers]

"I take into consideration that respondent has been a role model for women of color," Hernandez wrote.

i.e., "I'm O.K. with criminals sitting on the judicial bench, as long as they are black."

Withering!

[sharkhawk]

He noted the impressive credentials of Blackburne's character witnesses, who included former Mayor David Dinkins, Congressman Charles B. Rangel, and Appellate Division, 2nd Department, Justice Steven W. Fisher, who assigned Blackburne to the Drug Treatment Court when he was the administrative judge in Queens.

Impressive character witnesses?

[sure_fine]

Klinton would be proud of her

[Titan Magroyne]

Had you or I aided the person in escaping, LEOs would at least get to harass us for it, if not arrest us as well. From her position on the bench, she managed to weasel out of that part of it.

Thank you for the reassurance about the recommendation. I hope this one follows the established path.

[DUMBGRUNT]

"I take into consideration that respondent has been a role model for women of color," Hernandez wrote.

Justice Blackburne must be a second or third rate roll model unacceptable to the general population?

[kimosabe31]

One dissenter, Richard D. Emery of Emery Celli Cuti Brinckerhoff & Abady, called the punishment "unprecedented and unfair." The other, Stephen R. Coffey of O'Connell & Aronowitz, said Blackburne was not "unfit" or "unethical," but "merely human."

These clowns are unbelievable.

[Enterprise]

"I take into consideration that respondent has been a role model for women of color"

Detective: "Hello Mr. Jones? Yes, this is Detective Smith. I almost arrested the guy who robbed you the other day, but a judge arranged to let him escape before I could even question him. But I have good news. The judge is a 'woman of color' and is considered to be a good role model."

[Reactionary]

"Too many questions here to say if she needed to be removed from the bench or not."

There aren't any "questions" when a judge helps an accused robbery suspect escape justice.

The only "question" here is whether or not the judge is fit to establish norms of justice for a dog kennel.

[jocon307]

"There's more to this shady story."

No, there isn't. The facts reported here were exactly how this story was first reported. The judge may be an honest woman, and admitedly in the NYC judiciary that may make her almost miraculous, but the panel found correctly, she put herself above the law in order to aid a criminal.

[djf]

I don't get it. How come when a person in government gets caught with 14 year old girls, murder weapons, drug paraphenalia, and after ripping the tags off the mattresses they always get some kind of "PAID ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE"?