This is Part VI of the series about the re-election campaign of Judge Gary Rosa, currently of Delaware County Family, County and Surrogate's Court.
Part 1 is here.
Part II is here.
Part III is here.
Part IV is here.
Part V is here.
In his re-election campaign, Judge Rosa, as did judge Carl Becker before him, tries to use the so-called "drug court" as a sail into judgeship.
He doesn't have to use any sail into judgeship, because, as I exlained in Part I, he runs unopposed and thus only needs his own vote to get "reelected".
But, he puts out the misinformation about the "drug court" nevertheless, and that fraud needs to be addressed.
First of all, here is the full transcript of an interview given by Delaware County District Attorney Shawn Smith when he tried to quickly bow out of that same "drug court" a week after a squatter/apparent confidential informant was found dead - who was put into our house to destroy it, intimidate our daughter and to run a drug surveillance operation and fentanyl lab for the County.
Despite the fact that Shawn Smith is once again, sort of, good and dandy with Judge Rosa with drug court, the issues raised by him in the interview did not go away, and remain tainting the claims of Judge Rosa as to the project's alleged wholesome goodness.
You can read the transcript here. I have personally transcribed the interview from an audio file that I downloaded from DA Smith's official Facebook page.
I also did some investigation, including through FOIL requests, of what exactly the "drug court" is.
I found out that, first, it is, very simply, not a "court", as Judge Rosa claims it to be. It is a project based on federal grant that does not qualify as a "court" under New York State Judiciary Law, and, as such, all claims that it is a "court" are illegal.
Moreover, many participants of the "drug court" claimed that they participate in such "court" on consent and based on a "contract".
My efforts to receive a copy of the "contract" through FOIL from Delaware County and the New York State Office of Court Administration (NYS OCA) were so far unsuccessful.
I FOILed Delaware County Public Defender Joe Ermeti, Delaware County District Attorney Shawn Smith and Delaware County Sheriff Craig Dumond for documents indicating existence of a contract upon which they participate in "drug court" - which was publicized many times in the local press.
No such "contract" was produced.
Both Delawrae County Attorney Merklen and the NYS OCA give me currently a runaround as to the "drug court" documents, now claiming that they are wholly and entirely "private".
Moreover, these entities claimed to me that, even though court proceedings MUST be public, according to Judiciary Law 4, the "drug court" is covered by federal privacy regulations because it is - guess what? - a patient treating facility.
I wonder where is Judge Rosa's medical degree to run such a "patient treating facility", and in the Delaware County courthouse, no less.
In other words, dear voters, the "drug court" is a grant-eating sham spewing into the community violent criminals and drug dealers, as DA Smith explained in his radio interview in great detail.
And judges, such as Rosa now, should stop using this project to sail onto the bench on its coattails.
Because it stinks.
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