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JAZZING UP THE BENCH

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Didn't our late great Judge Alfred Nesbitt start it all with his blue robes?The title to the post links to the NY Times articles on the sartorial splendor of Judges. The greatest Judge we ever met, and he really is the dean of all trial Judges in the US- a Judge's Judge  if there ever was one,  was Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of NY.  He often didn't  wear  his robe in court. And when he sentenced a defendant, he normally got off the bench and sat down at a desk on the level of the defendant and issued his sentence and looked him right in the eye and explained why he thought the sentence was just. Judge Weinstein is  now  on senior status we believe. And for federal practitioners in NY, his "Weinstein Korn and Miller" on Civil Practice and Weinstein on Evidence with Berger,  was the bible for federal evidence and civil procedure...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).