Criminal justice observers have expressed concern about the number of reversals in recent years coming out of one Queens courtroom handling many of the evidence suppression hearings for the Supreme Court.

Combined with other issues raised recently about the criminal justice system in Queens, they express worry that the spate of reversed suppression decisions, sometimes for reasons that left appellate judges apparently scratching their heads, showcase an insular system unfairly tilted against defendants who enter it.

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