Posted on 06/15/2006 7:00:15 AM PDT by TET1968
In a 5-2 decision, the state's highest court Tuesday ruled to permane tly remove controversial Queens Supreme Court Justice Laura Blackburne from
Blackburne, a Jamaica resident, allowed Derek Sterling, a drug treatment court defendant, to use a back stairwell only accessed by judges, jurors and court staff to evade arrest from a detective about an unrelated robbery back in 2004. In the New York State Court of Appeals' 20-page decision, the concurring opinion said Blackburne "placed herself above the law she was sworn to administer, thereby bringing the judiciary into disrepute and undermining public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of her court. "[Her] dangerous actions exceeded all measure of acceptable judicial conduct," the ruling stated. In her argument to the court, Blackburne suggested that censure would have been more appropriate and maintained that she allowed Sterling to leave "to protect the integrity of the Treatment Court."
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My old alma mater too.
Do you know what years he attended?
Go back to Jamaica mon!
He is a judge, [Associate Judge] on the New York State Court of Appeals [our highest Court]. He was on that Court for years before retired from the D.A's office I worked in. Reliably liberal, but not one of the cutting edge 'flamers';, like the Chief Judge, Judy Kaye, or Carmen Ciparick.
Savage- 1956 or so. Remember Louis Schucker? http://1969.jamaicahighschool.com/schuckerobit.html
I'm astounded anew every day at FReepers whose sarcasm detector is broken.
MINE TOO! 1983 Here..
LC
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