Whereas judges ought to get loads of leeway on the subject of their courtrooms, there also needs to be limits. Issues like play handcuffing youngsters to show some extent or truly handcuffing youngsters over pretend legal guidelines are on the prime of my “shit judges shouldn’t be doing in their very own courtrooms” listing, however that listing is due for an replace. Law.com has protection on the “order” Justice Naita Semaj has been bringing to her courtroom:
A Bronx jurist agreed to be censured, admitting she unjustifiably ejected three assistant district attorneys from her courtroom, and was impatient and discourteous to prosecutors, typically reacting with sarcasm throughout a 13-month span, a judicial watchdog mentioned Tuesday.
The New York State Fee on Judicial Conduct’s 10-0 resolution that state Supreme Court docket Justice Naita Semaj needs to be censured mentioned the six-year jurist acknowledged she violated misconduct guidelines on quite a few events and demonstrated at the very least the looks of bias.
The quick finish of the story is that even judges shouldn’t flippantly kick DAs from their courtroom or insinuate that an ADA may get some further leeway together with her male supervisors as a result of she was pregnant. Typically the time and place actually is rarely and nowhere. Whereas that is removed from the primary time that complaints towards Justice Semaj have led to her habits being beneath overview (Semaj once chided a victim’s mother for not being on time for the arraignment of the man who allegedly killed her son), the fee described her demeanor as “contrite” and “cooperative.” Hopefully this would be the push she wanted to behave in a fashion befitting a decide.
Bronx Judge Is Censured Over Unwarranted Ejections and ‘Unseemly’ Criticism of Prosecutors [Law.com]
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