An upstate New York judge resigned after making a startling admission to his fellow jurors in a ploy to escape jury duty.
"I know they are guilty," otherwise "they would not be in front of me," said town justice Richard Snyder, who resigned in ...
An upstate New York judge has resigned after he got out of jury duty by claiming that he couldn’t be impartial because he ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York judge has resigned after he got out of jury duty by claiming that he couldn't be impartial — because he thought everyone brought before a court is guilty.
Nobody likes jury duty, but one local judge's attempt to get out of serving on a grand jury ended up costing him his job. In October 2023, Richard Snyder, a New York town justice, said he couldn't ...