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Committee to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the
Legal System
August 17, 2000 letter from Patricia Bucklin,
Director/Office of Public Affairs/OCA
CJA's
September 7, 2000 letter to Glenn Lau-Kee, Esq., Committee member
--
"RE: Chief Judge Kaye's Committee to Promote Public Trust and
Confidence in the Legal System"
CJA's March 3, 2000
letter to Chief Judge Kaye -- and subsequent letters -- culminating in
August 3, 2000 judicial misconduct complaint vs her
CJA's September 7, 2000 letter
to Barry Kamins, Esq., Committee member -- "RE: Promoting Public
Trust and Confidence: (1) Scheduling a meeting to discuss the organized
bar's responsibility to confront readily-verifiable evidence of the
corruption of the processes of judicial selection, discipline, and
attorney discipline; (2) Amicus and legal assistance in Elena
Ruth Sassower, Coordinator of the Center for Judicial Accountability,
Inc, acting pro bono publico v. Commission on Judicial Conduct of the
State of New York (NY Co. #99-108551)"
Article 78
proceeding -- ERS v. Commission on Judicial Conduct
cc: Commission
members: Kamins, Davis, Graffeo, Lack --
CJA's December 9, 2000 letter to Chief Judge Kaye -- RE:
Presentment of CJA's November 13, 2000 Report to Your Committee to
Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System & Removal of
Four of Its Members"
-- given to her, in hand, along with
CJA's November 13, 2000 Report on the Complicity of the Bar
Associations in the Corruption of "Merit Selection"
Ex. A-1: City Bar President Evan Davis'
October 18, 2000 letter to Governor
Pataki, with accompanying October 18, 2000 press release
Ex. A-2: October 19, 2000 front-page item, NYLJ
Ex. A-3: CJA's October 16, 2000 fax coversheet to City Bar Counsel
Ex. A-4: CJA's October 19, 2000 fax to City Bar Counsel
Ex. A-5: October 19, 2000 fax from City Bar Counsel
Ex. A-6: October 25, 2000 fax coversheet from City Bar Counsel,
enclosing member rosters
Ex. A-7: November 17, 1998 fax from City Bar Counsel with Executive
Committee membership
Ex. B-1: State Bar President's October 24, 2000 letter to Gov. Pataki
with
accompanying "Guidelines for Evaluating
Qualifications of Judicial Candidates"
Ex. B-2: State Bar's October 24, 2000 "News Release"
Ex. B-3: October 25, 2000 NYLJ front page item on State Bar's ratings
Ex. B-4: CJA's October 25, 2000 fax to State Bar counsel
Ex. B-5: State Bar membership list of its Executive Committee &
Judicial Selection Committee
Ex. B-6: State bar President's November 2, 2000 letter to NYS Senate
Judiciary Committee
Ex. C-1: Women's Bar Association's October 20, 2000 "Media Advisory"
Ex. C-2: October 23, 2000 NYLJ front-page item on Women's Bar ratings
Ex. C-3: CJA's October 23, 2000 letter to Women's Bar
Ex. C-4: website of Women's Bar listing its officers & past
presidents
Ex. D-1: October 20, 2000 letter from President/NYS Trial Lawyers
Association to Gov. Pataki's counsel
Ex. D-2: Trial Lawyers' October 20, 2000 "News Release"
Ex. D-3: October 24, 2000 NYLJ front-page item on Trial Lawyers' ratings
Ex. D-4: CJA's October 24, 2000 letter-fax to Trial Lawyers
Ex. E: "Court of Appeals Nominees Grilled by Bar Groups",
10/17/00 front-page article, NYLJ
Ex. F-1: Gov Pataki's November 2, 2000 press release: "Governor Pataki
Nominates Graffeo to
Court of Appeals"
Ex. F-2: "Pataki Selects Judge for Appeals Court He Sees as
Lenient", NYT, November 3, 2000
Ex. F-3: "Pataki Names Graffeo to Court of Appeals",
NYLJ, November 11, 2000
Ex. G: CJA's June 20, 2000 letter to Cit Bar President Evan Davis
Ex. H-1: CJA's September 18, 2000 letter to Guy Miller Struve & P. Kevin
Castel
Ex. H-2: November 3, 2000 front-page item/NYLJ
Ex. I-1: CJA's November 19, 1998 letter to Chairman/NYS Bar's Judicial
Selection Committee
Ex. I-2: CJA's January 4, 1999 letter to State Bar President
Ex. I-3: CJA's February 17, 1999 letter to State Bar President
Ex. I-4: February 18, 1999 letter from Counsel/NYS Bar
Ex. J-1: "Where Do You Go When Judges Break the Law?"
Ex. J-2: June 1, 1995 letter to Chairman/State Bar Committee on
Professional Discipline
Ex. J-3: June 5, 1995 letter from Counsel/NYS Bar
Ex. K: CJA's November 19, 1998 letter to Co-Chair/Women's Bar Judiciary
Committee/
with fax coversheets to her
& her Co-Chair, and Women's Bar President
CJA's
March 1, 2001 letter to Chief Judge Kaye -- "RE: CJA's
December 9, 2000 letter"
(indicated copy to Committee to Promote Public Trust
& Confidence in the Legal System-c/o Patricia Bucklin/Counsel)
CJA's March 2, 2001 letter to Counsel
Patricia Bucklin -- "RE: Placing CJA's November 13, 2000 Report
on the Agenda of The Upcoming Meeting of the Committee to Promote Public
Trust and Confidence in the Legal System";
enclosing
CJA's
March 1, 2001 letter to Chief Judge Kaye
--
CJA's November 13, 2000 complaint to 1st
Dept. Disciplinary
Committee
CJA's March 7, 2001 letter to Counsel
Bucklin enclosing
CJA's March 7, 2001 letter to Committee
on Professionalism in the Law
May 9, 2001 letter from Committee Co-Chair
Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Frazee
CJA's December 22, 2003 letter
to Counsel Wendy Deer --
"RE: The 'Viability' of the Committee
to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System -- and the empirical
evidentiary basis for its implied claim in its May 1999 report (at p. 33) that
'errant attorneys and judges are accountable"
(indicated copy to John Eiseman, OCA Records Access Officer)
January 8, 2004
transmittal letter to John Eiseman -- "RE: Requests for Documents Relating to:
(1) Committee to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System; and
(2) Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law"
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