An upstate New York judge resigned after making a startling admission to his fellow jurors in a ploy to escape jury duty.
Richard Snyder, a town justice in upstate New York, said he could not serve as an impartial grand juror because he believed ...
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 ...
An upstate New York judge has resigned after he got out of jury duty by claiming that he couldn’t be impartial because he ...
Former Petersburgh Town Court Justice Richard T. Snyder, of Rensselaer County, was being investigated for misconduct by the ...
ALBANY, N.Y. — 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 was 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.