The report released on Monday goes much further in documenting pervasive evidence of political hiring for some of the department's most senior career positions, including immigration judges, assistant United States attorneys and even senior counterterrorism positions.
At a small gray metal desk in a narcotics courtroom of the Bronx Criminal Courthouse on a recent morning, two intensely busy men, Gilbert Acevedo and Jose Diaz, took turns talking on the phone to a stream of judges, assistant D.A.s, Legal Aid lawyers, private attorneys, and probation officers.
BALTIMORE — The judge's assistant who practices her viola in a courthouse jury room.
A judge's assistant at the Baltimore County Circuit Court, she practices in a jury room across a corridor from a cell.
As a fellow Law Clerk to a Federal Judge, Fellow Assistant U.S. Attorney, and esteemed Fellow Member of the Bar, Sherman earned the high reputation he had.
In May 2005, Jeffrey Toobin wrote about the first serious electoral challenge to Morgenthau's reign, from a prominent former judge and Assistant District Attorney named Leslie Crocker-Snyder.
Back in 1974, Espósito chases the killer with the aid of his antic partner, Pablo Sandoval (Guillermo Francella), and their cautious superior, Irene Menéndez Hastings (Soledad Villamil), a judge's assistant.
Bravo, 42, also kept framed jail mug shots of his dream inmate in his Sanford, Fla .home and also showed up at the victim's court hearings, drug rehabilitation meetings and, according to the arrest report, tried to intervene in court by speaking with the public defender and the judge's assistant.
Rookies also get to see the rest of the criminal justice system: Judges and assistant district attorneys who are under the assumption that getting punched, kicked, and spit at are just parts of a cop's job, and top brass who don't support street cops when they come under fire from the public.
All other judges, including two assistant judges in each county, are elected by the people.
