Months before the onset of winter, the Office of Court Administration has sent into hibernation a 7-foot-tall stuffed bear that briefly made the lobby of the Sullivan County Courthouse in Monticello its lair.
“My position was it takes away from the decorum of the facility,” Judge Michael V. Coccoma, the deputy chief administrator for courts outside of New York City, said in an interview yesterday. “It’s not that I have anything against taxidermy. But given the seriousness of the business we do in our courts, I felt it was a distraction.”
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