Federal Judiciary

LOOSE LIPS
By Mark Thompson
markthomp@yahoo.com
Posted 04-30-08

New York County Justice Edward J. McLaughlin, who has regularly gotten into trouble with the Appellate Division for hectoring and badgering jurors, was reversed again, this time for overbearing behavior towards a criminal defendant and his supporting witnesses.

McLaughlin “unduly injected himself” into the trial of Vincent Raosto, said a unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, which reversed Raosto’s conviction for selling drugs. But that was only one of a laundry list of other prejudicial errors. The prosecutor also was out of line, and as for Raosto’s defense attorney, he was a junky, the appellate panel observed.
 

Full post as published by Judicial Reports on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).