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More on Sotomayor as a young NY state prosecutor

By Douglas A. Berman

Today's New York Times includes this article, headlined "Sotomayor Is Recalled as a Driven Rookie Prosecutor," with more cover of the professional past of a likely future Justice. Here is a snippet: Ms. Sotomayor spent about five years as a prosecutor. Interviews with her colleagues and supervisors painted a portrait of a frightened rookie prosecutor who quickly gained the confidence and the trust of others.  She became a driven and focused prosecutor who easily fit in, whether in debating fine points of law with lawyers or judges or in interviewing a victim whom she perhaps recognized in broad outlines from her own upbringing in the Bronx. ?She had a foot in both worlds, and she was comfortable in both of those worlds,? said Richard H. Girgenti, a former supervisor...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 08, 2009 (boomark / email).