Professor James Sample was quoted in the Law360 article “Federal Judge’s Ties To Buffalo Mayor Raised In Ballot Appeal” on September 8, 2021.
Excerpt:
“Buffalo’s upstart Democratic nominee for mayor made an emergency appeal to the Second Circuit Tuesday to stop incumbent mayor and primary loser Byron Brown from belatedly jumping onto the ballot, pointing out ties between the mayor and U.S. District Judge John Sinatra that some legal ethics experts found “troubling.”
Hofstra University law professor James J. Sample told Law360 that “viewed in isolation, the conflicts of interest detailed in the briefs would not necessarily require disqualification.”
“But taken together, and especially in light of Judge Sinatra’s prior representation of Brown’s co-defendant in the RICO matter,” Sample said, “Judge Sinatra’s impartiality may reasonably be questioned and his recusal is thus mandated” by the federal law governing judicial conduct, 28 U.S.C. § 455.”
Read the full article on the Law360 website.
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