Federal Judiciary

POISONED FRUIT
By Mark Thompson
markthomp@yahoo.com
Posted 04-02-08

Queens County Justice Arthur Cooperman, one of the most oft reversed of New York City’s criminal judges, got reversed again, this time for allowing evidence into trial that was gathered during an illegal police search of an apartment.

Cooperman these days is presiding over the bench trial of the police officers accused in the Sean Bell shootings, after the defendants waived their right to a jury and placed their fate in his hands alone. In the case that earned the judge his latest reversal, he handled the hearing on Julio Borrell’s motion to suppress evidence. Cooperman denied the motion, leading to convictions after separate trials on two indictments for multiple counts including robbery and burglary.

Full post as published by Judicial Reports on April 02, 2008 (boomark / email).