I know Delaware County DA (and the current contender for re-election for that position) John Hubbard professionally, I litigated against him in criminal court for several years.
NOT ONCE during all those times when the DA's office litigated before Judge Carl Becker in the County Court did the DA's office or John Hubbard personally disclosed that John Hubbard was Judge Becker's law partner before he came to the bench. He only disclosed it when Judge Becker "retired" (or rather ran from the bench mid-2nd coveted term chased by 1. the FBI, 2. the New York State financial comptroller and 3. The New York State Commission for Judicial Conduct), then-DA Dick Northrup ran for his place and Hubbard was elevated to the DA's position and than ran in elections for DA.
Only then he coughed up that he was a law partner of Judge Becker.
Which is a disgrace.
How many criminal cases - financed by county taxpayers - did Hubbard undermine by this conflict of interest, how many convicted defendants now can come back and make motions to undo their convictions because of this conflict of interest?
I can also tell you that Hubbard is a women-hater and a racist, and that's based on my personal interaction with him, and generally a lousy slime.
When I came to Hubbard, as other attorneys did, in a town court to discuss a criminal case of a female client, a criminal defendant, all he was concentrated on discussing was her sex life - and you know why?
Because she had several multiracial (African American) children.
Hubbard unashamedly said about her that she was "sleeping with blacks, as if there are no white men here", and laughed off my indignation.
Remember, that was a criminal case that had absolutely nothing to do with my client's sex life. Not that Hubbard cared.
He was practically fixated on the issue, and raised it each time I came to him for conferences of that case, and that was several times during that litigation.
By the way, later on I have learnt that there was an additional reason for Hubbard's discussion s in such conferences - he was taking time and bluffing.
He knew that his main witness disappeared, did not notify the court, did not tell me, and kept trying to get a conviction, to have my client plead guilty.
The case was later dismissed because Hubbard was not ready for trial - in fact, several of my former clients' criminal cases were so dismissed. Hubbard is sloppy and not knowledgeable as a lawyer.
He just "sleeps with the right people" to get ahead.
He also spends time badmouthing criminal defense attorneys to criminal defendants.
My husband and I had numerous clients come to hire us for criminal cases specifically because Hubbard tried to say dirty things about us to them. They explained their reasoning this way: if a prosecutor is mad at a criminal defense attorney, he must have lost cases to that criminal defense attorney.
I publicly thanked Hubbard many times for advertising for our law firm and for bringing us business. He got furious each time - but stupidly continued to badmouth us - and to bring us more business.
This says that he does not have a good temperament as a public official - not that anything good can be expected from somebody whom dishonest slime Carl Becker chose as his law partner.
It is laughable that you would "protest for racial justice", "demand accountability" about events happening somewhere in another state and about public officials in another state and keep saddling yourself with corrupt racists in your own local government.
You recently protested against police brutality.
Yet, you do not protest when YOUR OWN police officers taser pregnant women and then put them in jail so that their miscarriage and other injuries cannot be documented.
You do not protest when your local police officers taser, ram with cars people videotaping them, obtain false arrest warrants to get whistleblowers out of the house in order to find and destroy evidence of police misconduct, they burn houses of whistleblowers - including pregnant women.
This is all happening and has been happening on Hubbard's watch.
And you know whom he investigated and prosecuted?
The victims, and covered up for the perpetrators, because some of them were related to employees of the District attorney's office.
You want that insect to be a guardian of your law and order in the area? You deserve him - and all that he represents and that will be coming at you.
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