Fordham Law School Professor Bruce Green spoke to The New York Law Journal about Acting Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Teresa Corrigan’s decision to recuse herself in the re-trial of a convicted sex offender.
Accompanying the renewed motion was an affirmation from Bruce Green, a legal ethics expert teaching at Fordham University School of Law. Green said in his affirmation that Corrigan should take herself off the case because “her ‘impartiality might reasonably be questioned,'” citing state judicial rules.
Green said there was a “significant risk … that the informed public will lack confidence in any judicial rulings and resolutions adverse to Friedman, not because of the evidentiary record, but because of Judge Corrigan’s associations with the D.A.’s office and its key personnel, whose conduct is seriously in issue in this case.”
Read The New York Law Journal‘s entire article here.