Panel Says Judge Didn't Have to 'Rubber Stamp' Schoharie Limo Operator's No-Jail Plea Agreement
Justice Sharon Aarons' dissent expressed surprise "that the plea agreement was eviscerated in a fleeting moment."
April 21, 2023 at 02:13 PM
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LitigationA New York trial court judge didn't overreach when he tossed a negotiated plea deal that would have allowed the operator of a limousine company to avoid jail time from the 2018 Schoharie crash that resulted in the deaths of 20 people, a midlevel appeals court in Albany—with one strongly worded dissent—said.
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