The Queens District Attorney’s Office has taken the extraordinary step of attempting to block a Supreme Court judge from ruling on the ethics of a program in which prosecutors interview suspects in central booking prior to arraignment and before they have been assigned counsel.
In a petition seeking a writ of prohibition recently filed with the Appellate Division, Second Department, District Attorney Richard Brown’s office argued that the judge, Acting Supreme Court Justice Joel L. Blumenfeld (See Profile), does not have the authority to consider the ethics issue in the context of a suppression proceeding and that a ruling could cause irreparable damage to his office’s reputation.
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