Westchester Bar ranks judges in ’10 election
It’s the list we’ve been waiting for … the Westchester County Bar Association has released their ranking of judicial candidates seeking office this November.
For the New York State Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial District
Found well qualified:
Hon. Linda Christopher
Hon. Colleen Duffy
Hon. Lawrence H. Ecker
Hon. Gerald M. Klein
Hon. J. Emmett Murphy
Found qualified:
Hon. Matthew J. Byrne
Hon. James Maisano
For Surrogate’s Court, Westchester County
Found well qualified:
Hon. Anthony Scarpino, Jr
For the Westchester County Court
Found well qualified:
Hon. Barry E. Warhit
Found qualified:
Douglas J. Martino
For Family Court, Westchester County
Found well qualified:
Edward P. Borelli
Hon. David Klein
Michelle I. Schauer
Found qualified:
Patricia A. O’Callaghan
Meets minimum requirements:
Hal B. Greenwald
Hon. Nilda Morales Horowitz
Found not qualified, failure to appear:
Hon. William Edwards
For the Yonkers City Court:
Found well qualified:
Hon. Robert C. Cerrato
Hon. Thomas R. Daly
Hon. Theodora K. Wood
Found qualified:
Hon. Evan Inlaw
Hon. Richard F. Sweeney
An explanation of the rankings:
Well Qualified signifies that a candidate has extraordinary qualifications for the judicial bench being sought.
Qualified signifies that the candidate has the character, temperament, professional aptitude and experience which are requisites for the judicial bench that he/she is seeking.
Meets Minimum Requirements signifies that a candidate has no significant negative impediment but lacks some important qualification for the judicial bench that is being sought.
Not Qualified signifies that a candidate has some characteristic which would indicate that the person is a poor choice for the judicial bench he/she is seeking.
Any candidate who fails to appear will be rated Not Qualified by Failure to Appear, or, where appropriate, Not Qualified. No candidate may withdraw from the interview process or decline a rating.
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It’s quite upsetting that Anthony Scarpino is running unopposed for the Surrogate Judge position. No other party could find a candidate that would like to hand out billions in Westchester Estates to his lawyer friends?!?
This is very strange. I don’t know if it’s true but I heard there are a lot of ethics complaints against him. Do a google search on “Judge Anthony Scarpino” and you’ll be very concerned also.
I see that in the Family Court race, Nilda Horowitz, who was sanctioned by the Commission on Judicial Conduct simply meets the minimim requirements. What a travesty that she was even nominated for this important Court. Just say NO to ethically challenged judges. Nilda Horowitz must GO!
NO VOTE FOR MURPHY In 1989, Yonkers City Court Judge Murphy was party to a corrupt judicial cross endorsement deal, effectively disenfranchising the voters. 7 judgeships were traded for 3 years, 1989, 1990, 1991. As pro bono counsel to the 9th Judicial Committee, a grass roots citizens’ group founded by Eli Vigliano, Esq., I challenged that deal by suing judges and party bosses involved in the 1990 phase. Predictably, other cross-endorsed judges decided that case, dismissed on technical grounds. Thus, the judicial malefactors were allowed to profit from their breach of public trust by collecting their contracted-for paybacks. After I was retaliated against by unlawful suspension of my law license, still extant, Judge Murphy moved up to his contracted-for County Court judgeship. Mr. Vigliano became pro bono counsel, suing him in state and federal court cases, also dismissed not on the merits. See judgewatch.org Now again multiparty cross-endorsed to guarantee his election, vote for 4 of the other 7 candidates in protest.
Doris L. Sassower is president of White Plains based Center for Judicial Accountability. Inc.
NO VOTE FOR JUDGE MURPHY
Murphy has cross-endorsements by four political parties D-R-I-C, his victory thereby virtually assured. But voters can register a protest against this pernicious judicial cross-endorsement practice. There are 4 vacancies. Voters should forget party lines, vote for 4 of the other 7 candidates and leave Murphy out. That would be only fitting, as he never should have been on the ballot in the first place. His Supreme Court judgeship was conceived in original sin when he became party to the corrupt 1989 judicial cross-endorsement deal I challenged in state and federal lawsuits to which he was a named party defendant. Our complaints were never disputed or decided on the merits.
Eli Vigliano, Special Counsel to Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. has worked pro bono more than 20 years
For over 2 years my children have been living with me since left here by their mother. Judge Horowitz refuses to take any evidence or testimony in 3 attempts for me to gain either full or at least custodial custody of them. I am still required to pay child support to their mother. In the past few years she has received over $11,000 in support as well as$25,000 in tuition I’ve had to pay out to keep my children in school in which in my divorce decree I was not responsible for. I have done and continue to to what I need to do as a father to support my children with little or no help financially from their mother or the court. I have been threatened with a suspended licence, impounding of my car which takes my children to school and most recently they actually froze my bank account. This is all due to the fact that I have to make the choice between my children’s school bills, our food, our mortgage, and all other living expenses or fall behind on support that goes no where. I find it unusual that no one or agency exists to investigate my circumstance and that this kind of one sided anti Father attitude still exists in out court system. Judge Horowitz is just ruining my children’s lives with her constant one sided decisions. I have plenty more to tell so if anyone can help us please feel free to contact me, Thank You.
As far as voting how is it possible NOT to re-elect a Judge? When I went to vote I saw pick 4 out of 6 for Family Court Judge. I’m not a betting man but those seem like great odds to me.