RSSSotomayor Achilles’ heel? Wrongly imprisoned man
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | July 1, 2009
The nomination by President Obama of 2nd Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court is more than alarming to an innocent man who was convicted of murder and spent 16 years in prison before being cleared and released.
Jeff Deskovic, whose pursuit of freedom has been chronicled by the New York Times and others, told WND that the last six of those years are directly attributable to decisions endorsed by Sotomayor.
“I’m very alarmed,” he said. “The rest of my life, as a result of my ordeal, is dedicated to preventing this from happening to other people.”
Sotomayor in her 2nd Circuit position repeatedly put “procedure over innocence” and rejected appeals that could have provided Deskovic with his freedom much earlier than it actually happened, he told WND.
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SOTOMAYOR IGNORANT OF THE LAW
Sotomayor flunks on getting the most basic principle of appellate law wrong – the Standard of Review.
In Huminski v. Haverkoch, 11/5/04, 03-7036 2d. Cir., Sotomayor reveals an ignorance of the law by failing to apply the correct standard of review to an important civil rights case. She found appellate review was for reversible error when the correct standard of review for such a case (summary judgment) is De Novo.
A simple google on, “standard of review for summary judgment de novo” supplies tens of authorities on the issue. I guess Sotomayor would rather be wrong than google on such a rudimentary issue. She also could have assigned her flock of law clerks to research the issue. Further, on a motion for rehearing specifically pointing out her error she did not act and correct it.
Here is the link to the Sotomayor summary order from this case in which she presided over.
http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/cb42154f-30e6-47ee-ae7c-d8e4c3acc2e5/1/doc/03-7036_so.pdf#xml=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/cb42154f-30e6-47ee-ae7c-d8e4c3acc2e5/1/hilite/
See also,
http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/cja-members-efforts/huminski-scott.htm
Where the order states “For the Court”, it refers to Sotomayor and the 2 other judges on the case.
See a different case of mine, Huminski v. Corsones, No. 02-6201 (2d Cir. 10/07/2004) (“We review a district court’s grant or denial of summary judgment de novo.”)
Empathy, not much empathy for this wrongly convicted and incarcerated citizen,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/nyregion/10dna.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
It appears she gave this imprisoned man the same bogus one page opinion that I got.
– Scott Huminski
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