The disaster of Amy Merklen, Delaware County Attorney (NY)

I wrote at the time Amy Merklen was ascended to power by Delaware County Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors Tina Mole - and I know Amy Merklen personally, from opposing her in litigation: she is bad news, and not in terms of fear of her competence.

She is incompetent, lazy, bad-tempered and vindictive - and all of that has been visited on Delaware County and its taxpayers, myself included, since 2017, with disastrous fiscal consequences and consequences to people's rights.

Now that the County is up to its eyeballs in litigation because of Amy Merklen and spent and continues to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on attorneys whose authority to represent the County I could not verify through FOIL requests with the County (County simply does not have any

 documentation supporting that authority) - readers will be thrilled to read, from the horse's own mouth, the revelations of Amy Merklen in her declaration in support of her motion for a summary judgment against the local newspaper that is suing her for 1st Amendment retaliation.

Note that even the threat of punitive damages did not clear up the brain - either of Merklen or of her attorneys - and Merklen continues to barge claiming, as of right, her right to "advise" the County officers and employees how to block the flow of information to the public and the press.

And - note that she confirms withholding benefits from Walton Reporter because of the contents of the reporting, a CLASSIC 1st Amendment violation.  She is an ATTORNEY, for God's sake.  Doesn't she have to go through CLE every year - in addition to her duty to know the law and ADVISE the County on how to NOT violate that same 1st Amendment?

And - by the way - she LIES, openly LIES, LIES UNDER OATH, UNDER THE PENALTY OF PERJURY - when she said that she never held herself out as being able to give commands to officers and employees of the County.

In her own testimony in the case against CPS Commissioner Dana Scuderi-Hunter, filed with the court, she testified that she was placed by the County higher than any other officer or employee of the County - appointed OR ELECTED.  And she enjoyed every minute of relishing when the 3rd Department upheld the firing of Scuderi-Hunter, even though it nullified Merklen's charges of "insubordination" - to Merklen.  Merklen and County's litigation attorney kept making public statements and made a statement directly in a lawsuit where I was a party that they won against Scuderi-Hunter ON ALL CHARGES - directly misrepresenting to the court the contents of the 3rd Department's decision.

So enjoy reading what they lying Merklen says here under the penalty of perjury.

In full knowledge that - who is going to charge her with perjury?  Local pocket DA?

The time has come. I am starting to publish depositions of Delaware County officials from the federal Walton Reporter lawsuit. The first one - the absolute kicker - Delco's Information Officer's revelations, from the horse's own mouth

 Enjoy!

I am posting this absolute piece of art in full, just follow the link and read it.

This is an "information officer" toiling in the County of Delaware at taxpayers' expense - who considers her primary duty to bend to the petty tyrant Amy Merklen who demands that no "sensitive" (or rather any) public information be given to the public and the press to shed a light on the kind of governance that happens in the rotten depths of Delaware County office building.

I have personally purchased this record off Pacer.gov.

I will continue the publications.

Once again - enjoy.  If you can.

Does it smell like rotten fish in the 3rd Department?

 

Back in 2015 I published a series of articles about an individual who was fraudulently elected as a Supreme Court Justice of Albany County Supreme Court, Christina Ryba (interesting coincidence, the name “Ryba” means “Fish” in Russian, so that is a rotten fish, indeed).

You can read the essence of the rotten-fish’s rotten fishness in the elections in my blogs dated:

November 4, 2015, here;

November 12, 2015, here;

Another November 12, 2015 article, here, titled “GOP wants an ethical probe of Christine Ryba who was elected as judge one day after she was terminated from an appellate court for unethical behavior” – yet, who is GOP in “democratic” New York and what “ethical probe” may be had against a BLACK WOMAN and a “FIRST BLACK FEMALE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE”? And so young?  And so pretty?  Oh, no.  Go away, GOP, with your ethics probes into rotten fishes, let them rot happily ever after, at NYS taxpayers’ bottomless expense.

(The next day, quite coincidentally, my law license was pulled 😊, and remains pulled – for how may a LICENSED attorney complain about various judges’ rotten fishness – OPENLY?)

I did not stop writing about the rotten fishness of the rotten fish, and published the next article about her the next day – as already an unlicensed attorney 😊:

November 14, 2015, here, article titled “Michael Coccoma's stop-gap job offer to Christine Ryba: for a senior high-ranking male judge, ethical misconduct of a pretty-face female attorney who has ties to the government is grounds for promotion. Again”

January 2, 2016, here, article titled “A "historic" fraudulent election of a black woman to the New York Supreme Court bench is cheered on by those who should have reported and disbarred her”.

I was not the only one who raised the issue of the fraudulent election – but apparently, the her gender and the blackness of her skin – and the prettiness of her face meant more than her obvious fraud upon voters.

And she survived in her judgeship.

And she thrived.

 

And – hallelujah – she made a thunderous comeback to the very 3^rd Department from which she was fired (but not disbarred), allowing her career to proceed.

The 3^rd Department recently announced the next step in the rotten fish’s career – the appointment to the Appellate Division 3^rd Department, you can read the public announcement by the 3^rd Department of that appointment here.

The is Honorable know.  The Honorable rotten fish.

The announcement is an copy of the announcement of New York State Governor Hochul made on January 15, 2026, available here.

In the announcement, you can trace the “successful” career of the rotten fish, including the litany of where she is a “member” and where she “served”.

Judging by how exactly she got elected and who harbored her after that, which I described in my contemporaneous blogs referenced above, the “service” could be as prominent as her fraudulent election and safe-harbor trick with then-Chief Administrative Judge for upstate New York Michael V. Coccoma, the connoisseur of pretty women who quite coincidentally happened to be rotten judges.

Unfortunately, my alma mater, the Albany Law School, fell for the brown-nosing temptation, putting the rotten fish on its Board of Trustees.

Consider that the rotten fish, as the announcement of the 3^rd Department claims, “serves” on the Permanent Commission for Access to Justice, people! 

And, of course, first and foremost what was prominently mentioned in the announcement of the 3^rd Department, the rotten fish was she is “the first Black person ever elected to the Supreme Court in the Third Department and will be the first Black justice elected from the Third Department to serve on the Appellate Division”.

That must mean a whole lot to attorneys whose law licenses the rotten fish will be now regulating, and to litigants whose liberty and property issues the rotten fish will be now adjudicating, guided by her own, already demonstrated to the public at the point of her first election – rotten fraudulent principles.

I get a kicker out of identity politics of judicial appointments.

The same 3^rd Department is headed – and I openly wrote about it before – by the first LGBTXYZ@#$^ justice “serving” as the Chief Judge of an Appellate Division, Elizabeth Garry.  Whose only qualifications was who she chooses to sleep with.

Welcome to the woke world of the judiciary – ever alive.

And prepare - now the rotten fish will not only decide your fate, but will decide the fate of your attorney and lifeline to court relief - and teach that attorney ETHICS, CARL.  Figure.

 

 

On the kind of dead - or maybe not - Village of Delhi (NY) former mayor Samudrala

 Why kind of?

Did you see an obituary of that glorius person?  Who was also Village of Delhi Trustee and SUNY Delhi Professor - for years?

Nope.

Not from SUNY.

Not from the family, the usual way, in a local newspaper.

Not from Village of Delhi.

Instead, the Village of Delhi coughed up the following announcement:

Do you see the date of death?

Nope.

Do you see the place of death? 

Nope.

Do you know why?

I do - and I will happily enlighten you.

Because the Village of Delhi was in litigation with my husband and myself, where Samudrala was a defendant, the case was dismissed, possibly (we do not know and information is locked and unavailable) AFTER Samudrala either died or became legally incompetent before death (he was dying of terminal cancer, as the family reported, and was in the terminal stages for at least half a year before his death, which perfectly overlays the entire period of litigation.

Do you know how I learnt about Samudrala's death?

Did his litigation counsel - coincidentally, Village of Delhi's longtime lawyers - tell me as was their duty? Tell the court as was their duty?

Because at death of a purported client two things happen instantly, by operation of law, without intervention from any court:

(1) attorney's authority to represent that dead client (if such authority ever existed) stops dead - sorry for the pun; and

(2) the court's authority to continue to oversee litigation of the case also stops dead - until the estate of the dead person is substituted into the case, with the attorney the estate will hire.

So - did attorneys Courtney Heinel, Earl Redding and Roemer, Wallen, Gold and Mineux, toiling at the expense of my own and my taxpayer money for a decade (Heinel), two decades (Redding) and 3 decades (the law firm) - do their legal duty and tell me, and the court?

Nope.

A little bird from the village, a reader of my blog told me.

The reader said - Mrs. Neroni, DO YOU KNOW that while these attorneys are seeking COSTS AND SANCTIONS from you, representing to the court UNDER THE PENALTY OF PERJURY that Mr. Samudrala is alive, well and authorized such actions on his behalf, he is not only announced dead by the Village of Delhi since September, but a "celebration of life" party is going on BEHIND YOUR HOUSE IN DELHI, NY, MRS. NERONI (I live in South Carolina since 2015, so of course I do not know what is going on behind our property in Delhi, NY) at the Legion Field Hall?

What did I do after that?

Correct.

I (1) notified the court, and (2) sued the attorneys, you can read the complaint here and, after these attorneys double down and asked for sanctions because of that lawsuit not only against me, but also against my, once again, elderly and medically fragile NON-PARTY husband - I amended complaint and included that conduct into it, too, you can read it here.

And I have real luck with judges assigned by Porter Kirkwood - that Porter Kirkwood - to my cases:

Burns and Lambert - who I criticized in my blogs and my book for misconduct - so what did they do?  Correct.  They retaliated against my daughter.  Lambert so far as admitted to it by stating - after the fact that he simply thought my daughter was me - so that kind of justified retaliation and abuse of power.

Those guys recused, probably, 6-7 times already in 2023 to date from my cases - but Porter Kirkwood keeps assigning them, because - who knows, what if at some point the assignment will stick?

Then came Elizabeth Aherne, the judge who presided over my 1st Amendment retaliation case involving my blogs and book and litigation against CPS while at the same time having a PAID JOB TRAINING CPS PROSECUTORS!!!  She and her law clerk.

That job started my investigation and led me to find out that Aherne screws this way not only me - but anybody who dares to sue her employer the Cornell University.  17 cases in less than 3 years!!!

After I turned Aherne in for public corruption to New York State Police, she did what I described in a lawsuit against her here - because she would not get off my cases, and continued to preside, even when Delaware County, Village of Delhi and Town of Delhi, and Village of Delhi attorneys in a separate lawsuit, directly and completely illegally asked her to punish me FOR the crime tip against her to the New York State Police.

So, after Aherne finally got off my cases, you know who I got?

I really can't win.

A judge whose REVERSAL on appeal I was trying to enforce against Village of Delhi attorneys in my current motion for sanctions.

See my motion for sanctions here: memorandum, affirmation.

See now my instant motion to recuse Judge Baker (who remains on the case): affirmation, the overview of Judge Baker's horrible, horrible reversals - look what KIND of reversals, what KIND of mistakes this Supervising judge of the 6th Judicial District makes!!!

Village of Delhi attorneys consistently claimed that I am "judge-shopping".  Completely forgetting that anybody's right to impartial judicial review is not a gift, a grace or a favor from the state government - it is a PRE-EMPTIVE, FEDERAL, MANDATORY, FUNDAMENTAL, CONSTITUTIONAL right, and I have all the rights in the world to enforce it.

I have a right to a minimally competent and a minimally honest judge. 

Don't I?

Which so far - looks like - is consistently denied to me.  By Porter Kirkwood, now the 6th Judicial District Executive who boasted in an interview that he gets to assign judges to cases in his district.  Figure.

But - back to our Mr. Samudrala.

Is he dead?

Is he alive?

I do not know.

Because Village of Delhi attorneys - even when sued, even when they moved to dismiss the lawsuit "based on documentary evidence" - are tight-lipped and refused to disclose the date of death - or its place.

Why?

Because the date may have a capacity of turning the entirety of all vigorous litigation in Neroni v Mole case that they "won" against us in August of 2025 - into a 

and not as pretty pumpkin as this one.

I will continue to cover this case - and other cases of interest in the area.

Stay tuned.

Delco/Village of Delhi's fight with their taxpayers and with FOIL and 1st Amendment and common decency. Part I.

I have written about the incestous relationship of Syracuse law firm Hancock Eastabrook with US District Court for the Northern District of New York for over 10 years, see my blog of November 21, 2015 here.

On May 16, 2025, I published a blog article about incestous relationship between the state-and-federal-judges-related law firm Hancock Eastabrook, a Syracuse law firm heavily involved in litigation on behalf of Delaware County - against Decker Advertising (Walton Reporter, NY), and against my husband and I, regarding civil rights litigation concerning the concerted destruction of our house by the government - Delaware County, Village of Delhi and Town of Delhi officials combined.

You can read our lawsuits here, and here. 

In the first lawsuit I finally stopped being silent about the real reason for my suspension from the practice of law and made a disclosure out load, under the penalty of perjury, in an Affirmation filed with the court, you can read it here.

On May 25, 2025 I have published a blog article called "On Demented Supervisors".  The article discussed the incestous relationship of the U.S. Court for the Northern District of New York and its various judges, including the current Chief Judge Brenda K. Sannes and Magistrate Miroslav Lovric with Syracuse law firm Hancock Eastabrook.

The response of the system was fast and furious.

Delaware County and Hancock Eastabrook/Frank Miller used as a straw person Village of Delhi attorneys who removed the second lawsuit in front of the very federal judges whose misconduct I was raising - for years - in my blog articles.

The judges in question immediately required my 78-year-old medically fragile husband to do what they knew was physically impossible for him to do - COME to Binghamton, NY physically, from Georgetown South Carolina where we live since 2015, despite well documented medical information showing that my husband cannot travel.

Magistrate Lovric, naturally, denied my husband's request to conduct the 15-minute-conference by phone.

But no, Magistrate Lovric had to grandstand and abuse his power over a disabled elderly litigant and insist that as a condition of prosecuting a civil rights case related to real estate, he absolutely had to grow another leg and come with that leg to Binghamton NY pronto.

Note that in the "demented supervisor" blog, the same magistrate allowed a Delaware County then-supervisor Thomas Axwell not to come and not to testify in a hearing in Walton Reporter's lawsuit against Delaware County for 1st Amendment retaliation without any medical documentation whatsoever - simply on an affidavit of his daughter saying that he (the county's sitting legislator) is "kind of" demented and no use in giving testimony.

Lovric instantly granted the request despite the glaring jurisdictional issues that such a request posed: that Hancock Eastabrook (counsel for the demented supervisor) had no authority represented a person with diminished mental capacity, where a legal representative had to be substituted.

Why?  Because Hancock Eastabrook can do in that court what it wants - by being a catchall employment receptacle of the courts' judges' multiple relatives and former law clerks.  Not to mention that the firm belongs to Timothy Murphy, brother to Chief Administrative Judge of New York State courts outside of the State of New York James Murphy.

The bought federal court discriminated against us until we could take no more, cut our viable federal claims under a recent mandatory Supreme Court precedent, Royal Canin.

Even that did not stop Chief Judge Brenda Sannes, recent former employer of Hancock Eastabrook's associate Erika Masler, "coincidentally" a daughter of NYS Supreme Court Justice Mark Masler who, also "coincidentally" (1) recused from the our first lawsuit interlinked above, because of that relationship to Hancock Eastabrook, but (2) got assigned to my daughter's lawsuit, barred me from watching judicial proceedings and then killed her viable lawsuit violating every rule in the book - I will write about it separately.

At the same time, Delaware County-entwined Watershed Agricultural Council subjected my daughter to cruel disability discrimination and fired her, see my pending lawsuit about it here, and Delaware County, under the tight control of its czarine Amy Merklen, refused to hire my trilingual (English, Spanish, Russian) lawyer, environmental engineer and GIS coder daughter even for a planner or GIS technician position claiming that she did not provide to them an appropriate writing sample.  Obviously, my daughter's lawsuit against Delaware County Sheriff, served upon the County, did not suffice as a writing sample.  At the same time, Amy Merklen joined forces with the Village of Delhi Mayor after jointly complaining about my FOIL requests and harassing Town of Delhi supervisor Maya Boukai for fulfilling my FOIL requests after two (2) attorneys - the Town Attorney and attorney hired by Ms. Boukai at her own expense told her that it was her statutory duty to release the records to me.

The absolute kicker was the recent public statement of Amy Merklen that she has a problem engaging legal talent to answer FOIL requests.  First, Amy Merklen did not post any such jobs on the County's website.  Second, my daughter, a licensed attorney, lives within a walking distance from Merklen's office.  But no.  She is not good enough for the job.

So - what did Delaware County do to "deal" with the existential "problem" of Tatiana Neroni's and other journalists' and taxpayers' FOIL requests?

Well, they created a series of "portals" "taking care" of FOIL requests by requiring of requesters what the law does not allow to require: to create an account, and to give a third-party private provider your personal information in order to see responses of the County to FOIL requests.

I have no tolerance for this nonsense.  So I simply sued the County, Amy Merklen, Tina Mole and the County Clerk Haley Gransbury who created an additional bar for access to information - a pay per view $5 fee to make people bankrupt before they can even verify whether they do or do not have a case of unequal taxation for preparation of tax certiorari proceedings.

My lawsuit against this bunch can be read here.

Very sadly, they will not litigate at their own expense, as they should - because it is their misconduct that is causing the non-stop litigation against the county by taxpayers and members of the press, not only me.  It will be again put on taxpayers, including my husband and me, who, as out of state property owners in Delaware County cannot even vote these suckers out of office, but whose pocket is engaged to fund their shenanigans and their defense of lawsuits to get them out of the consequences of these shenanigans.

I will report on these ongoing lawsuits.

Stay tuned.

"Justice" Elizabeth Aherne and her time sheets. Oh, boy

As I stated before, I turned a New York State Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Aherne to the New York State police for presiding over her own second employer's (Cornell University's) court cases, without disclosure of her employment, and while repeatedly ruling for her employer.

Part I of the series about Judge Aherne and the Cornell scandal is here.

Part II is here.

Part III is here.

The series is ongoing, and I am discovering that more than one judge may be involved in the corrupt scheme.  Right now I am investigating - and suing - Supreme Court Justice Mark G. Masler, whose criminal misconduct, together with a judge for whom he then clerked, I previously described on this blog.  Now he is a Supreme Court justice, and his misconduct went to another level.

"Justice" Aherne also continues to preside over my own case regarding the wrecking of our house by the local authorities during the drug surveillance operation.  "Justice" Aherne has fixed one case so far for the County officials, but a second case based on the same facts, filed to preserve the statute of limitations, is coming back to Delaware County Supreme Court from federal court soon.  See both cases on NYSCEF, it is Neroni v Mole, EF2024-880 and Neroni v Delaware County, EF2025-447.  

There is a lot of interesting information to inform your voting decisions there.  NYSCEF allows you to download and read these documents for free without any registration, just google NYSCEF guest search and search and download documents as a guest.

I started to file FOILs about Justice Aherne after her extraordinary decision in Neroni v Mole where she pretended not to notice and actually refused to review a hilarious part of the record, unopposed, showing how the former mayor of the Village of Delhi Sridhar Samudrala was evading service of process in that same case with the help of his lover, the Delaware County Supreme Court Chief Clerk Kelly Reynolds/ Sanfilippo, rewarding Kelly for her efforts with a world tour for the entire time service was supposed to be made - to Singapore, Australia and India.

Thosa koalas and penguins are irresistible, you know.

You can see their smiling faces in Neroni v Mole filings that Justice Aherne pretended not to notice.

So...

Considering that Justice Aherne has a second employment, undiclosed to parties in the Cornell scandall, and, possibly, an untold amounts of other side jobs, I FOILed:

(1) for her financial disclosures; 

(2) for her time sheets; and

(3) for camera surveillance footage in the courthouse showing that she was actually at work when a decision in our case was issued bearing her electronic stamp/signature only.

Because - you know what started the fall of Delhi Town Judge Richard Gumo and led to him being booted from the bench?  That he allowed his court clerk to rubber stamp an arrest warrant while he was away, and then he lied about it in court which resulted in Judge Lambert's dismissal of a criminal felony case.

So, I FOILed for all the above information for Justice Aherne to see whether she was, indeed, at work when "she" issued a decision in Neroni v Mole that I am now saddled with the expense of appealing.

Here is what I found.

(1) the "Ethics Commission" of the New York State Office of Court Administration (NYS OCA) told me that unless I make my FOIL request on their particular form (it is illegal to ask that), they will not give me Justice Aherne's disclosures, and even if they do, they may cut out from those disclosures anything they feel like cutting out - I am about to file a lawsuit about that;

(2) NYS OCA told me point blank that they DO NOT HAVE Justice Aherne's time records.  Thus, the claim of legitimacy of all of Justice Aherne's decisions (and, likely, of any other judge, because NYS OCA does not keep time records of ANY judges) goes down the drain.  I am preparing to sue the State of New York in the Court of Claims and elsewhere, and Justice Aherne and other actors who are involved in NOT creating time sheets for a judge who is running additional conflicting jobs while having a full-time judicial position.   

(3) as to camera footage, NYS OCA told me that they will give me an answer in October, but previously, when I made such a FOIL request for a different judge, Joseph McBride of Chenango County Supreme Court, NYS OCA came up with a hilarious runaround trick.

They demanded from me, as a condition precedent to get the footage of the judge coming to and going from a certain courthouse on a certain day at a certain time, that I must disclose TO THEM the name and number of THEIR security cameras from which I need the footage.

Apparently, I do not know, and am not supposed to know, for security reasons, the location and names of THEIR cameras within courthouses.  

Yet, for that reason, the footage was denied - and likely destroyed by now.

I asked NYS OCA not to destroy the footage I requested regarding Justice Aherne, as I will need it for litigation.  I don't know what kind of excuse NYS OCA will come up with about the footage now.  Before, they claimed at different times, also security system malfunction on the particular day when I needed the footage, and that I need to come to the courthouse AFTER HOURS to watch the footage.

The bottom line is this - NONE of NYS judges' judicial decisions, signed or stamped, may be considered legitimate when the public is precluded from knowing of the judges' side jobs and of the judges' whereabouts on the day the decision is issued.

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#JudgeRosa, why bother? Part VI. The fraudulent "drug court" sail into judgeship.

 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.