Judicial Conduct Watchdog Counters Supreme Court Justice's Bid to Withdraw Appeal of Her Removal
The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct said the Court of Appeals may want to weigh in on "the appropriate discipline" for a "racially charged off-the-bench tirade."
December 30, 2024 at 06:43 PM
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What You Need to Know
- An independent watchdog commission has concerns about the timing of a suspended trial court judge's request to withdrew her appeal, and says it won't stipulate.
- State Supreme Court Justice Erin Gall is seen and heard on police body-worn cameras engaging in a racially motivated tirade in which she threatened gun violence, and invoked her judicial role.
- Gall, who has collected about $96,000 while on suspension with pay from her judicial post, appears to have found a new public job.
New York's judicial misconduct watchdog said it would not acquiesce to a departing state jurist's belated request for her appeal to go away quietly—but will nevertheless defer to the Court of Appeals' "sound judgment and discretion" toward disposing the matter involving Supreme Court Justice Erin Gall.
At issue is the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct's request in July for the state's highest court to remove Gall, an elected trial court judge in Oneida County, for threatening to shoot Black teens outside a high-school graduation party in suburban New Hartford in July 2022.
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