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On May 19, 1988, Daronco issued a written decision holding in the defendant employer's favor and dismissing the case. On May 21, 1988, Charles L. Koster, a retired New York City police officer and the father of the unsuccessful plaintiff, shot and killed Judge Daronco while the judge was doing yardwork at his home in Pelham, New York. Koster ...
A majority of federal judges who died in office in the 18th and 19th centuries died before reaching the age of 65, with several dying in their 30s. As one source has noted, "given what we now know about health and ageing, it must have been uncommon then for old age to impact adversely on the performance of a federal judge's official duties.
Roll was the first federal judge murdered in office since Robert Smith Vance in 1989. [16] Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals selected Larry Alan Burns, a judge of the Southern District Court of California, to be the presiding judge over Loughner's trial, [27] [28] after all federal judges in Arizona recused ...
Larry Hicks, a federal judge in Nevada for more than 20 years who presided over cases ranging from U.S. environmental disputes to political corruption trials, died after being struck by a vehicle ...
Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007) [1] was an American contract killer and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century.
The country’s approximately 1,700 federal judges hear 400,000 cases annually. ... compared the work to current investigations into police abuse of power. ... after a white police officer killed ...
The murder of a federal judge and high-ranking judicial official like Bermúdez Zacarías was a rare occurrence in the ongoing Mexican Drug War (2006–present). [18] [78] The federal judge murdered before Bermúdez Zacarías was René Hilario Nieto Contreras, [79] who was killed in October 2006 in Toluca, reportedly on orders from the Gulf ...
Lansing Police Department officers shot and killed 33-year-old Stephen Romero in 2023. On Wednesday, a federal judge dismissed his family's lawsuit.