Not exact matches
New York's chief administrative judge has suspended a Guilderland
town justice who was
arrested last week on felony charges accusing him of scheming with another attorney to steal more than $ 4 million from the estates of people they had advised.
Richard J. Sherwood,
town justice in Guilderland, is brought into City Court by police officers after being
arrested on Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)
Mr. Hughes, an attorney and former FDNY firefighter and fire marshal, pointed to the
arrest and conviction of former
justice court clerk Christine Stulsky for stealing from the
town's bail fund as a major problem in the courts that needs addressing, saying ethics need to be restored to the court.
A U.S. Department of
Justice investigation of Ferguson, Mo., after the Michael Brown shooting found 16,000
arrest warrants in a
town with a population of just 21,000 — many, easily challenged errors in tickets, notices, legal process.