Supreme Court may circumscribe power of lay judges

By: Scott Forsyth January 3, 2017 Comments Off

New York has approximately 2,150 town and village court judges. Of those, 1,450 or nearly 70% are nonlawyers. That is the greatest number and highest percentage in the country. For years the media, good government groups, and even the Office of Court Administration have chronicled how these judges of “tiny courts” have engaged in “abuses of ...

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