A divided New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday removed Queens Supreme Court Justice Laura D. Blackburne for helping a robbery suspect evade arrest.
The 5-2 ruling marked a rare and possibly unprecedented case where the court decided that a judge who had no prior disciplinary record, and had committed misconduct that did not involve personal profit, venality, a breach of trust or moral turpitude, is unfit for the bench.
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