In his brief but biting decision excoriating both prosecutors and public defenders in the Bronx for a certain “local practice” that has developed in the courts, a judge paraphrases one of New York’s best-known U.S. senators.
“This case reveals a not-so-well-kept secret of Bronx Criminal Court: lawyers routinely ignore judicially set motion deadlines,” Criminal Court Judge Jeffrey Zimmerman said. “To slightly re-order the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, deviancy can be defined downward only so far before there are consequences.
