EAST ISLIP – With its two highest-ranking officers now working in the District Attorney’s Office, the Suffolk County Criminal Bar Association has adopted a new policy against prosecutors serving on its executive board. The association recently elected a new board and, at the same meeting, also named County Court Judge Gary J. Weber its “Judge of the Year.”

Suffolk has the only criminal bar association in New York State whose membership is comprised of defenders, prosecutors and judges. Until outgoing president John L. Buonora and outgoing first vice-president William A. DeVore began work in January as the district attorney’s executive assistant and deputy chief of the district court bureau respectively, no prosecutor had ever held an executive position, Mr. Buonora said.

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