Category Archive for : ‘JUDGE’

Long Island Press/Timothy Bolger

Suffolk County Family Court Judge Andrew Tarantino, a Long Island judge who isthe target of complaints from Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center, a victim’sadvocacy group, has been given other duties pending the findings of a state investigation. PFML allege the judge improperly allowed, Dennis DeMille, a convicted sex offender to participatein overnight visitation with his own three children.  The group also took issue with thejudge’s courtroom behavior, which they said has been characterized as biased, abusive, sarcasticand outrageous.  They added that he has a

AOL News/Sean Murphy

Under a plea deal, David Harold Earls, a 64 year old ex-convict, of the southeasternOklahoma town of McAlester, who is accused of raping a 4 year old girl was sent to jail for only ayear.  The deal has prompted outrage across Oklahoma, where lawmakers are calling for theremoval of the judge who approved the deal and the attorney general is investigating a new set ofabuse allegations.  Earls pleaded no contest last month to first degree rape and forciblesodomy.  Normally, the rape charge carries a sentence of between

FBI

Ronald H. Tills, a 73 year old State Supreme Court Judge from Hamburg, New York, is chargedwith knowingly transporting a female in interstate commerce with the intent that the female engagein prostitution (Mann Act).  The charge carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison, afine of $250,000 or both.  He pleaded guilty.  Tills admitted that in late October 2005,he, John Trowbridge, Michael Stebick, and others, transported a woman from the Western New Yorkarea to Kentucky and intended for the woman to engage in prostitution in Kentucky with members

The prosecutor in the case of Mahamus Kanneh, a Liberian native charged with repeatedly raping and molesting a 7 year old girl, said Monday that he is filing an appeal of a controversial judge’s ruling that dismissed all charges because an interpreter who spoke the suspect’s rare West African dialect could not be found.  Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy called the ruling last Tuesday by Judge Katherine Savage improper, adding that his office has requested that an appeal be taken to reverse the court’s order.  Savage ruled on July

Courts continue to underplay the seriousness of child pornography, child welfare experts have warned after the Family Court last month ordered an 8 year old boy to live with his stripper mother, despite her partner’s obsession with pornographic images of young girls.  Family Court judge Tim Carmody’s decision on January 16 to grant the mother custody over the child’s grandparents, in part because her boyfriend’s collection of 350,000 pornographic images and 6,400 videos focused on young girl’s and not boys, left welfare advocates aghast.  The boyfriend was jailed in 2005

Donald Thompson, a 59 year old former Oklahoma judge, was convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials and using a sexual device under his robe.  He was sentenced on Friday to 4 years in prison.

(Oklahoma)