“She’s a better defense attorney than an actual defense attorney,” a source familiar with the probe said. “People have to know how she really is.”
promotion to be nominated as the presiding justice of the Appellate Division, First Department, which oversees all disputed criminal and civil cases in Manhattan and The Bronx.
“Court officials have discussed putting Semaj in Civil Court. It’s under consideration,” said Court Officers union president Dennis Quirk. But even before Semaj’s shabby treatment of the grieving woman, the Commission on Judicial Conduct had launched a probe into the judge. She railed that the offer was too severe, claiming Santiago was acting in self-defense against the two others after they approached him inside the store in what authorities believe was a gang-related dispute.
Ilya Kharkover, then the deputy chief for the Bronx DA’s violent crime enterprise bureau, offered a five year plea after the judge complained — which only seemed to set her off more.
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