An upstate New York judge has stepped down from his post after he attempted to bypass jury duty by admitting he could not ...
Richard Snyder, a town justice in upstate New York, said he could not serve as an impartial grand juror because he believed ...
Richard T. Snyder, who was elected as a New York judge and an attorney, was charged with misconduct before he left his post.
"I know they are guilty," otherwise "they would not be in front of me," said town justice Richard Snyder, who resigned in ...
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 ...
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.