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De Blasio re-appoints ‘set ‘em free’ Brooklyn judge
[NYPOST] Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday re-appointed the turn-'em-loose judge who freed a gang member charged with threatening the NYPD with copy-cat killings following the slayings of two cops in Brooklyn, The Post has learned.Sources said Brooklyn Judge Laura Johnson scored another year on the bench from de Blasio, who questioned her wisdom after The Post revealed how she ignored a prosecution request to set $250,000 bail for Devon Coley last week. "While the judge's decision was in compliance with the letter of the state's laws on bail -- which focus almost exclusively on risk of flight -- our judges must to take into account all of the circumstances that contribute to the risk of flight, and that certainly includes the seriousness of the offense," de Blasio said at the time. A de Blasio front man refused to immediately confirm Johnson's re-appointment, saying information would be released "in the next hour or so." Johnson, a former high-ranking Legal Aid lawyer, was first named to the bench in January 2013 by then-Mayor Bloomberg, who re-appointed her before leaving office last year. Coley, 18, was busted for posting a photo on Facebook that showed a gunman firing into an NYPD cruiser, just hours after cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were killed the same way on Dec. 20. He also wrote the chilling phrase "73Nextt," in apparent reference to the 73rd Precinct that covers his Brownsville neighborhood. Posted by: Fred 2015-01-01 |
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