The not-so-sharp Gary Sharpe is replaced in his position of Chief Judge of Northern District of New York - by yet another former prosecutor Glenn Suddaby

Since 2000 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York was led exclusively by former prosecutors.

First it was former prosecutor and former Onondaga County assistant District Attorney Judge Scullin who served as Chief Judge 2000 to 2006.

Then it was former prosecutor and former Onondaga County district attorney Judge Mordue who served as Chief Judge from 2006 to 2011.

Then it was not-so-sharp Judge Sharpe who punishes people for correct reading of the 11th Amendment.  Judge Sharpe served as Chief Judge of NDNY from 2011 to, as far as I understand, end of August of 2015 when Judge Suddaby was appointed in his place. 

Before becoming a federal judge, Judge Sharpe toiled as a prosecutor in the New York State Attorney General's office, and then in the U.S. Attorney's office, and left a son as his successor for each of his former employers, who continued to appear in front of Judge Sharpe after employing his sons.

Now it is a career prosecutor and former Onondaga County assistant district attorney Judge Suddaby who replaced Judge Sharpe as Chief Judge in NDNY.

By the way, the current Chief Magistrate that regularly pairs up with Suddaby, Sharpe, Mordue and Scullin while presiding over civil rights cases - and regularly tosses them on court-contrived grounds that have nothing to do with the U.S. Constitution or the Civil Rights Act - is David Peebles, yet another former assistant district attorney from Onondaga County.

As we see, former prosecutors led the NDNY court for the past 15 years, and former prosecutors from Onondaga County District Attorney's office have led the court for 11 out of those 15 years, including now.

That is, while the law school roommate and buddy of the current Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick Judge James Tormey, and Fitzpatrick himself are being sued in the same court where so many judges, including the Chief Judge are Fitzpatrick's former colleagues in the Onondaga County District Attorney's office and might very well know him personally.

The court, as far as I could see in the docket of that lawsuit, never attempted disclosure or transfer of the case to another court due to the HUGE appearance of impropriety.

Well, at least appointment of Judge Suddaby removed the embarrassment of having a Chief judge of a federal court who cannot read the U.S. Constitution that he is sworn to protect - and who presides over and rules for cases where his sons' two employers (U.S. Attorney and New York State Attorney General) are appearing.

Yet, Suddaby, as a career prosecutor, has a prosecutorial mentality which, coupled with absolute prosecutorial immunity that Suddaby "enjoyed" for his entire legal career could not but breed a special kind of arrogance and disdain to the rule of law and a sense of entitlement.

The entitlement that allows Suddaby to regularly preside, without disclosure, over cases where his former employer the Onondaga County is sued (according to my review of cases on Pacer.gov) and ruling for that former employer.

When prosecutors become judges reviewing civil rights cases, you know civil rights will be screwed, and they are.