A complaint was filed against Judges Robert Mulvey, Michael V. Coccoma, Carl F. Becker

I have filed a complaint today with the New York State Commission for judicial conduct against:

1) Judge Carl F. Becker, of Delaware County Court/ Supreme Court/ Family Court for unlawfully unsealing information about a youtful offender (YO) in a family court proceeding where the YO was not a party, and without notice to the YO, his attorney or the court which handled the YO adjudication, and to investigate Judge Becker's role in intimidating the YO by threats of incarceration into signing a release of the YO information to Judge Becker's court after a complaint about improper release of YO information was filed with Judge Mulvey, the Chief Adminstrative Judge of the 6th Judicial District;

2) Judge Michael V. Coccoma, Chief Administrative Judge for upstate New York, for retaliating against a criminal defendant after he complained about Michael V. Coccoma that Michael V. Coccoma was treating the criminal defendant as a sex offender while he was never charged, convicted or sentenced for a sex offense.  Upon information and belief, after the criminal defendant filed a complaint against Judge Coccoma with the Commission of Judicial Conduct, he was unlawfully sentenced by Judge Coccoma for 4 years in prison because he denied he was a sex offender (correctly) while the judge insisted he was a sex offender (incorrectly);

3) Judge Robert Mulvey, Chief Administrative Judge for the 6th Judicial District, for a pattern of retaliation and misconduct in a nubmer of cases, featuring deciding cases where jurisdiction of the court abated after incapacitation of a party, attempting to drag me as an attorney into a case from which I was released by consent trying to bind my former client, misrepresenting what occurred in a court proceeding in order to retaliate against me and, through me, against my husband for suing the judge for misconduct, for targeting my clients in retaliaton against me, for failure to disclose his conflicts of interest and recuse from cases.

A complaint was filed against Judge Mary Rita Connerton, of Binghamton, NY

I just filed a complaint with New York State Judicial Conduct Commission against Judge Mary Rita Connerton, the Chief Family Court Judge out of Binghamton New York, for:

(1) bigoted attitude to me as a foreign-born attorney and party;

(2) using her authority to protect governmental officials from developing the record of their misconduct at trial;

(3) engaging in ex parte communication on the merits of a case involving my constitutional rights;

(4) blocking my access to the recording of the court proceedings where the judge, behind my back, tells parties and counsel that my motion gives her a headache;

(5) relying upon oral argument in front of a recused judge in order to skip an oral argument and a trip from Binghamton, NY to Delhi, NY;

(6) likely being the source who ordered my detention in the courthouse on the way out of the courthouse (access to security videotapes to establish that for sure was blocked by the court administration), on the day when I DID NOT appear in front of Judge Connerton as an attorney or party, simply because of Judge Connerton's bias to me; and, among other things,

(7) for giving the government legal advice as to how to "get" my family better "the next time" since the government could not make their case against us the first time.

I consider Judge Connerton to be a jeopardy to the public and especially to the diverse body of litigants in Binghamton, Judge Connerton's usual seat, since Judge Connerton made negative inferences agaisnt me for "furrowed brow and hurried speech", even though she must know that such mannerisms may be attributed to the fact that English is not my native language.

On diabetic gun license holders who drink and criticize the government, diabetic judges and diabetic judges who drink

Public would want to know if the man/woman whose finger is on the big red nuclear button has a health condition that can either cause his/her judgment to be clouded, or his finger to twinge.


I insist that public would also want to know if the person in whose hands is a particular litigants life, liberty, reputation, property, or custody of children has any medical or mental health conditions that would prevent him from having good concentration or retention of information, or which would cloud his or her judgment.


Let's focus on just one possibility - if a judge has diabetes.


Swings in sugar levels in diabetes, as is well known, can and do cause swings in moods and in perception, or even visual hallucination, if diabetes is not under control.


It is highly inadvisable for a diabetic to drink alcohol.


Recently, Delaware County Judge Carl F. Becker revoked a gun license of a person using the fact that he was a diabetic and intoxicated as a passenger in a car, see Lillian Browne, Walton Reporter, November 13, 2014, p. 3 "Man Acquitted of Charges, Sues Walton PD".


As quoted by the newspaper above, Judge Becker reprimanded the gun license holder this way: "There is sufficient grounds to believe that you engaged in conduct which raises serious questions as to your conduct and decision making abilities to consume alcoholic beverages when you are a diabetic".


Now, since a judge acknowledges that drinking while having diabetes is a serious judgment flaw, are judges, the public officials who are supposed to make decisions, often in fast-paced environments, about people's liberty, reputation, property, custody of children - do they undergo regular screening for debilitating diseases and influence of alcohol and drugs?


Try FOILing this information and your FOIL will be rejected on the issue of privacy.  It is a private issue whether the black-robed person on the bench has a mood swing and pushes "the red nuclear button of your life" because he is sick, or sick and drunk, or sick and under the influence of medication.


I cannot get FOILs through even for financial information of judges, while judges' financial reports must clearly be public record and must show people what the judge owns, what is his/her and his/her spouse's income and who gives the judge gifts.




Yet - isn't the fact that Mr. Picinich is a diabetic also private and why did Judge Becker publicize it on record and make it a part of his court decision?


Shouldn't we the People have more say in who takes our liberty, reputation, property and children away?  Shouldn't we know if a certain judge is a diabetic and may be hallucinating or having a sugar level-induced mood-swing on the bench while deciding your case?  Shouldn't we know if the judge who is a diabetic is "drinking his lunch and dinner", and especially if it is on a regular basis?


I recall that all those public officials, including judges, call themselves (when they pretend humility that they do not have) "public servants".  Yet, those so-called "servants", when they get out of hand, which is what they do as a matter of right, are very difficult, if at all possible, to get rid of, and usurp power to retaliate against the complainants and eliminate complainants' rights, be that livelihood, reputation, property, gun licenses, other licenses - you name it.


And - my question now is, will Judge Becker return the gun license to Mr. Picinich who was acquitted by a jury of the criminal charges, or will Judge Becker still "stick to his guns", no pun intended, and continue to punish the acquitted individual - which will look like punishing him for


(1) winning a jury trial,
(2) having the police officer John Cornwell disappear from Walton PD, 
(3) having the Walton Police Department embarrassed, and
(4) for suing the Walton Police Department in court?


Isn't Judge Becker just a little out of control where he denies or revokes gun licenses in cases involving criticism of the government, and this is the second case when he does it that I know, and there may be more cases that I do not know of?


And - since Judge Becker, as a judicial officer, pronounced that it is a judgment flaw for a diabetic to drink alcohol, that should be the law now and all individuals who have to make important judgments on a daily basis that people's lives depend on, including judges, should be screened for whether they are diabetics who drink, or have other debilitating physical or mental diseases affecting concentration and judgment, or whether they are under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol while at their official duties?


Wouldn't that be a good idea?

More on finality of court orders that declare that the Sun rises in the West

This is yet another hypothetical for law students.

Let's say a certain court and a certain judge who had authority to preside over a case as a finder of facts, found that the Sun rises in the West.

The losing party made a motion to vacate claiming plain error, and lost because such errors must be raised only on appeal.

The losing party sued in federal court and lost on the Younger abstention grounds, because state appeals did not run through yet.

The losing party appealed and the appellate court affirmed claiming that they cannot do anything, because they must defer to the factual findings of the lower court.

The losing party sued in federal court against and lost under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, because the federal court claimed issues of due process that the losing party is raising should have been raised on appeal.

Ok.  The losing party lost in state court and on all appeals from the state court order that says that the Sun rises in the West.

The losing party has lost in federal court without reaching the merits, because the state court already made its ruling which should be final and should not be disturbed.

Now, as to the losing party, for all purposes, the Sun rises in the West?

Yes, it must, it is now the law.

But does the Sun really rise in the West?

Look out your western-bound window in the morning and you will know.

Yet, if you move to vacate once again the obviously crazy decision of the court, you will now be sanctioned for frivolous conduct, ordered to pay your opponent's counsel fee and, possibly, blocked from access to court altogether as a "vexatious litigant".

But the Sun still rises in the East - yet, not for you...

This is just a hypothetical of how the law of finality works in American courtrooms.

You think it's crazy?  There are zillions of decisions that say exactly this, only instead of "Sun rises in the West" there is something slightly different, for example, a misrepresentation of documents which do not say what the court says they say, or misrepresentation of the law which does not say what the court says it says.

Yet, the result is the same - if the court says (erroneously, or with a purpose to hurt you) that black is white, A is Z and that, yes, that the Sun rises in the West - that's the law for you.

And don't you dare tell the judge that it is - what? - that's right, crazy, your Honor!

A hypothetical for law students - is there a way to find an unknown address on a blind map?

Do you think it is possible to grant a summary judgment where jurisdiction depends on finding a property with an unknown address on a blind map?

You think not?  Think again.

In the case Martens v. Neroni (I wrote about what I consider open bribery of the presiding appellate judge by the New York State governor before the judge decided the case):

• One administrative law judge for the DEC (who is on staff of the DEC and paid by the DEC - Molly McBride);
• One DEC Commissioner acting as an Appellate Judge (Alexander "Pete" Grannis who is promulgating the rules as well as adjudicating them, and then is suing as a party to enforce his own rulings);
• One Supreme Court Judge (Carl F. Becker); and
• 5 Appellate Division Judges,

all in all 8 judicial or quasi-judicial officers have found that unknown address on that blind map and denied a civil rights attorney and her husband, a former attorney, their constitutional rights to a jury trial guaranteed by the Article I paragraph 2 of the New York State Constitution, as well as by the 7th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Why?

Because in law school law is all theory.

In the courtroom it is all practice.

And practice differs from theory in that there is no way a court will rule against the government, even if the government is sloppy, incompetent and commits fraud, and there is no way a court will rule in favor of an attorney who criticizes that court and that judge for judicial misconduct.

So - hang your J.D. diploma, take your bar exam, and then forget everything about the law and go work for the government.  You will never need any knowledge, you will get your salary and benefits for life without straining to get knowledge or please clients, and no attorney discipline will ever touch you.

Is persistent illiteracy a basis for impeachment of a federal judge?

I wrote in this blog previously that federal courts consistently misread the XI Amendment.

Federal courts claim that the XIth Amendment prohibits citizens of a state to sue their own state.

The text of the Amendment does not contain such language.

I was already punished by the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York Gary L. Sharpe for correctly quoting the XIth Amendment.

On November 6, 2014, Judge Kahn whom my husband just accused in a pleading of failure to disclose disqualifying conflicts of interest pertaining to Mr. Neroni and to me, rendered a decision where Judge Kahn dismisses certain claims of my husband based on Judge Kahn's understanding that the XIth Amendment bars my husband, a New York resident and citizen, from suing the State of New York.

Apparently, the U.S. Congress must include a reading and comprehension test as a pre-condition for confirmation of federal judges.

And - is failure to be able to read and comprehend the contents of the written law and the U.S. Constitution a basis for impeachment of federal judges?

Then, I suggest that Judge Lawrence E. Kahn, along with Judge Gary L. Sharpe, both of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, should be impeached for inability to read and comprehend the U.S. Constitution that they are both sworn to uphold.

And when judges rely on INCORRECT reading of the U.S. Constitution by the U.S. Supreme Court (Judge Kahn relied on an incorrect and later overruled case of the U.S. Supreme Court misreading the 11th Amendment), I cannot help recalling an old joke from my youth in the Soviet Russia:

--

A sergeant addresses newly drafted privates:

-  Private Ivanov!

- Yess, Comrade Sergeant!

- Do crocodiles fly?

- No, Comrade Sergeant!

- But, Comrade Captain says they do!

- Oh, they do, but very-very low to the ground, Comrade Sergeant!

--

It's time to start audits of efficiency and competency of American courts and to revamp the federal and state court systems according to a business model of recruitment and management

A party or an attorney can be severely sanctioned in American courts for missing an appearance, both with a fine, with a disciplinary action (for an attorney) and for an entry of a judgment of default against the party.


Try missing a deadline to submit a pleading - the result will be the same.


Yet, I have yet to see a judge who would abide by mandatory court rules on:


(1) disqualification and disclosure of conflicts of interest;
(2) timely issuance of court orders.


In New York, written court orders must be issued within 60 days of the returnable day of the motion or the last date of the trial.


Dream on.


I had judges who denied me, off-handedly and arrogantly, any written decision to my written motions.


I had judges who told me to obtain, at my own expense or expense of my client, a transcript of the proceedings to discern from it what the judge's decision is (even when the judge did not make a decision in such proceedings).


I had judges who took, literally, years, to issue a decision.


I had judges who took years and still not issued a decision.


One of such judges is Judge Jacqueline Lamport of the Stamford Town Court.  Judge Lamport has failed to issue an order of dismissal of a criminal action, despite my repeated written and oral requests, for over 2 years now.


Delaware County Court has failed to either appoint or control a judge to settle a transcript, and as a result I cannot proceed with an assigned criminal appeal for two years.


My written requests to the courts to move the case are simply ignored.


Judge Mary Work of the Ulster County Supreme Court has taken half a year to issue a decision on a motion that was filed in September of 2013, more than a year ago.


Federal courts are no different.


Federal court can routinely deny a party or attorney extra time to oppose a motion, but then will take a year to decide that same motion.


In federal appeals courts (I have the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit) clerks delay filings that arrive by mail by 2 weeks or more, causing the court to treat necessary filings as not being made, with dire consequences to parties.


Those same clerks sometimes lose filings sent to them by certified mail and claim the filings were never made.


Those same clerks require unnecessary work from pro se parties, such as service of forms and pleadings upon non-existing opponents.  That is all from personal experience, I can only imagine how pro se parties who have no legal education are treated.


Attorneys and parties are routinely sanctioned by courts for imperfect pleadings.  Yet, judges may routinely misrepresents facts of the record, existing law, they can deviate from the law, they can make up the law for the parties or attorneys they favor, they can make up the law against the parties or attorneys they disfavor, and there will be no consequences whatsoever.


If a business model is to be applied to courts in terms of efficiency and competency, many judges, clerks and other court personnel will be fired and blackballed for what they now do on a daily basis.


No business can effectively exist and survive being so wasteful, so inefficient and so arrogantly incompetent as American courts are.


So maybe it's time for the People of the United States and of each sovereign state to start direct audits their courts, their efficiency and competency and start approaching recruitment and performance of the judiciary as any business owner approaches such issues in his business?


The question that will arise then will be - with so many sacked arrogant incompetents whose only value was familial or other "friendly" or political connection to judges or other public officials - who will hire them?  In earnest?  Imagine these people with signs "will work for food" - and what will you do for food, screw up somebody's business for food? misrepresent business records for food? misrepresent company policies or food? be arrogant to customers for food? No, thank you.  




If screwing up somebody's business is unacceptable, how is it acceptable to screw up people's lives through incompetence, arrogance, cronyism and corruption of personnel of the American courts?