NATION : N.Y. Panel Finds Judge ‘Undignified’
A judge who berated a Legal Aid lawyer as a “liar” and warned a city attorney that there would be no food or sex in his courtroom exhibited “undignified” conduct, a state panel found today.
The state Commission on Judicial Conduct recommended that Brooklyn Civil Court Judge Carmelo Tavormina be admonished for his treatment of lawyers in a Brooklyn courtroom.
In another incident, the judge lashed out at a city attorney for reading a newspaper in the courtroom.
After the woman apologized, the judge said her response was “not good enough for me,” threatened to have her placed in handcuffs and ordered her from the courtroom.
As the city lawyer left, the judge “twice stated in a loud voice that there was no newspaper reading, food or sex in the courtroom,” she said.
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