Having served as sentencing judge in more than 500 felony cases and a sometimes special referee for the Departmental Disciplinary Committee and the Commission on Judicial Conduct, I must express a contrary view to one central aspect of the otherwise excellent recommendations contained in the Report of the Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline and being considered by the Office of Court Administration (NYLJ, Dec. 30, 2015).
In its advocacy of inter-departmental uniformity and the “harmonizing” of disciplinary sanctions, the approach smacks of the sentence uniformity of the federal sentencing guidelines, something which has been wisely and repeatedly rejected by New York.
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