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Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Judge helps robbery suspect escape:

   Holman W. Jenkins Jr. writes, in OpinionJournal's Political Diary (go
   [1]here to subscribe),

     Last week, a controversial [New York] state Supreme Court judge
     helped a convicted drug dealer who was wanted on a robbery charge
     escape her courtroom from a side door while a detective waited
     outside the front door to arrest him. Justice Laura Blackburne had
     been told the detective had come merely to "question" the man and
     was irked to learn he would be arrested for an assault and robbery
     that had occurred a few days earlier. Police later had to track
     down and arrest the suspect on the streets. . . . The judge has
     been reassigned for the time being to hearing civil cases only, but
     that will likely be the end of it. Removing judges from the state
     bench is all but impossible. . . .

     Ms. Blackburne is a classic New York politico. As chief counsel of
     the local NAACP office, she once sued Rupert Murdoch on grounds
     that it wasn't fair to let a foreigner own a TV station when so few
     blacks owned TV stations. . . .

References

   1. http://www.opinionjournal.com/politicaldiary