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The Corruption of New York City's "Merit Selection" for
Criminal, Family, and Interim Civil Court Judgeships
"No Justification for
Process's Secrecy" -- CJA's letter to the editor, NYLJ, 1/24/96
CJA's
January 2, 1996 letter
to former Mayor Ed Koch
Former
Mayor Koch's January 2, 1996 letter
CJA's
January 5, 1996 letter to former Mayor Ed Koch
Former
Mayor Koch's January 9, 1996 letter
CJA's
January 16, 1996 letter to Paul Siegfried, Executive Director/Mayor's Advisory
Committee on the Judiciary
CJA's January 16, 1996
fax to Paul Curran, Chairman/Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary
Executive
Director Siegfried's January 16, 1996 letter
CJA's
February 20, 1996 letter to Mayor Giuliani
(indicated copies to WABC Radio & NY Post)
Ex. A: CJA's 1/16/95 letter to Executive Director/Mayor's
Advisory Committee on the Judiciary
Ex. B:
"No Justification for Process's Secrecy", CJA's letter to editor,
NYLJ, 1/24/96
Ex. C: "Comm'n
Abandons Investigative Mandate", CJA's letter to editor, NYLJ, 8/14/95
Ex. D:
"N.Y.'s 10 Worst Judges", NY Post, 2/26-28/93
Ex. E: "N.Y.
watchdogs: Test judges' mental state", NY Post, 4/29/93
Ex. F: "New
York's 10 Worst Judges", NY Post, 2/27, 2/28, 3/1/95
Ex. G: "Who
judges the judges?", NY Post, 3/7/95
-- transmitting file in
Doris L. Sassower v. Commission on Judicial Conduct
CJA's
April 26, 1996 letter to Executive Director Siegfried
Executive Director
Siegfried's May 1, 1996 letter
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June 10, 1997 letter
From CJA intern Kate Ballinger to Executive Director Siegfried
Executive Director
Siegfried's June 17, 1997 letter
CJA intern Ballinger's
June 20, 1997 letter to Executive Director Siegfried
Executive Director
Siegfried's June 24, 1997 letter to CJA intern Ballinger
July 10, 1997
letter from the office of the Mayor's Criminal Justice Coordinator to CJA intern
Ballinger
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CJA's
June 27, 2000 letter to Mayor Giuliani's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary
[ATT: Executive Director Siegfried] -- RE: "July 6, 2000 'Public Hearing'", with
enclosures
June 28, 2000
letter from Executive Director Siegfried
CJA's June 30, 2000
letter to Chief Judge Kaye
(indicated immediate copies to Chief Administrative
Judge Lippman, Counsel Colodner, Special Inspector General Spatz, Commission
on Judicial Conduct, Susan Knipps-Deputy Counsel/Chief Judge Kaye, Mayor's
Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, City Bar, & eventual copies to Gov.
Pataki, A.G. Spitzer, Manhattan D.A., U.S. Attorneys-SDNY/EDNY, Ethics
Commission, media)
Ex. A: notice in NYLJ, 6/27/00; CJA's 6/27/00 letter to
Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary
Ex. B: CJA's 6/27/00 letter to Michael Colodner, Counsel/Unified
Court System
Ex. C: receipted first pages of CJA's 4/18/00 letter to
Chief Judge Kaye, 3/3/00 letter to Chief Judge Kaye,
3/3/00 complaint to Commission on Judicial Conduct, 2/23/00 letter to Gov.
Pataki, 2/25/00 memo to
proposed intervenors
Ex. D-1: CJA's 1/8/98 fax coversheet to Claire Gutekunst,
Chief Judge Kaye's designee on Gov. Pataki's State
Judicial Screening Committee
Ex. D-2: Claire Gutekunst's 1/8/98 faxed acknowledgment
Ex. D-3: CJA's 1/12/98 fax coversheet to Claire
Gutekunst, with two published newspaper items it enclosed
Ex. D-4: Claire Gutekunst's 1/12/98 faxed acknowledgment
Ex. E: CJA's 2/1/98 letter to Chief Judge Kaye, enclosing CJA's
two 1/30/98 letters to Chief Administrative Judge
Lippman
Ex. F: Thomas Thornton's 2/11/00 letter to Chief Judge Kaye, on
behalf of himself, John Heard, & Ross Giunta,
co-signers; Susan Knipps' 5/5/00 letter to Thomas Thornton, on behalf of Chief
Judge Kaye; Thomas
Thornton's 6/6/00 letter to Chief Judge Kaye
Ex. G: Thomas Thornton's 5/30/98 & 6/25/98 letters to Gerald
Stern, Administrator/Commission on Judicial Conduct;
Gerald Stern's 6/25/98 letter to Thornton; Thornton's 6/26 to Stern
Ex. H: Thomas Thorton's 1/18/98 judicial misconduct complaint
& subsequent correspondence with Commission
based thereon, etc.
CJA's July 3, 2000 letter to Barry Kamins, Chairman of the City Bar's Judiciary
Committee
CJA's July
3, 2000 memo to Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman, Counsel Michael
Colodner, and Special Inspector General for Fiduciary Appointment Sherrill Spatz
CJA's July 6, 2000 letter
to Counsel Michael Colodner
CJA's July 10, 2000 letter
to Chairman Paul Curran -- RE: "The Post-Hearing Procedures of the Mayor's
Advisory Committee on the Judiciary in Connection with CJA's Opposition to the
Mayor's Prospective Appointment of Susan K. Knipps to the Civil Court"
(indicated copies to Paul Siegfried, Patricia Hynes, Mayor Giuliani [ATT:
Dennison Young & Larry Levy], City Bar [Att: President Evan Davis & Judiciary
Committee Chairman Kamins])
Ex A: CJA's January 16, 1996 letter to Exec. Director Paul Siegfried
Ex B: CJA's
October 31, 1995 letter to Patricia Hynes
Ex C:
CJA's May 27, 1996 letter to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin
Hatch
Ex D: CJA's
December 2, 1997 letter to Patricia Hynes
Ex E: CJA's
January 12, 1998 fax to Patricia Hynes, enclosing CJA's January 9, 1998 letter
to ABA President Jerome Shestack
Ex F: NYLJ
item, July 10, 2000
CJA's July 10, 2000 memo
to Mayor Giuliani [ATT: Dennison Young, Counsel & Larry Levy, Deputy
Counsel] -- RE: "The post-hearing procedures of the Mayor's Advisory
Committee on the Judiciary in connection to CJA's opposition to the Mayor's
prospective appointment of Susan K. Knipps to the Civil Court"
CJA’s
July 10, 2000 letter to Chairman Kamins
CJA's
handwritten July 11, 2000 memo to Susan Knipps
July 12, 2000 letter of City Bar Presidential Fellow Dennis Cariello to
Barry Kamins
CJA's July
13, 2000 letter to Mayor Giuliani [ATT Larry Levy, Deputy Counsel] -- RE:
"Request that the Mayor Defer Action on Susan Knipps' Appointment to the Civil
Court: (1) Unless and Until the Mayor's Advisory Committee on the
Judiciary Responds to CJA's July 10, 2000 letter; and (2) Ms. Knipps' Discloses
her Purported Written Response to CJA's June 30, 2000 Letter and CJA has had an
Opportunity to Reply Thereto
CJA’s
July 25, 2000 letter to Chairman Kamins
CJA's July 31, 2000 letter
to Chairman Curran --RE: "(1) Request for the transcript of the July 6, 2000
public hearing; (2) CJA's unresponded-to July 10, 2000 letter"
Chairman Curran's
August 2, 2000 letter
CJA's August 17, 2000
letter to Chairman Curran -- RE: "Request for Clarification of your August
2, 2000 letter", with enclosures
Chairman Curran's
August 17, 2000 letter
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