{"id":46293,"date":"2024-06-06T16:06:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=46293"},"modified":"2024-06-06T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T20:08:16","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-as-a-judge-i-have-never-witnessed-such-an-abuse-of-judicial-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/06\/06\/letter-to-the-editor-as-a-judge-i-have-never-witnessed-such-an-abuse-of-judicial-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor – As a Judge, I have Never Witnessed Such an Abuse of Judicial Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In my 57 years practicing law, 12 of them as a Judge, I have never witnessed such an abuse of judicial authority as is being imposed by Judge Juan Merchan. He is replacing competence and impartiality with incompetence and prejudice. As a result, he is dragging the entire New York State judicial system in the cluttered gutter of partisan politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all due respect, I urge the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct to consider admonishing Judge Merchan and also consider removal from the Bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hon. Martin J. Kerins,
former Acting State Supreme Court Judge,
County Court Judge, District Court Judge,
Counsel to Speaker of Assembly, and
Brookhaven Town Attorney.
Eastport<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my 57 years practicing law, 12 of them as a Judge, I have never witnessed such an abuse of judicial authority as is being imposed by Judge Juan Merchan.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[8721,8720],"class_list":["post-46293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-i-have-never-witnessed-such-an-abuse-of-judicial-authority","tag-letter-to-the-editor-as-a-judge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46294,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46293\/revisions\/46294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}