{"id":378,"date":"2006-12-14T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/12\/14\/piece-of-me-judge-sued-for-2-million\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T15:28:28","slug":"piece-of-me-judge-sued-for-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/12\/14\/piece-of-me-judge-sued-for-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;piece of me&#8221; judge sued for $2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"50\" alt=\"judgeAngry\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/12\/judgeAngry.gif\" width=\"77\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/02\/censured-judge-wanted-to-fight-pro-se-litigant\/\">We reported<\/a> two months ago that Albany [NY] City Court\u00a0Judge William A. Carter\u00a0was censured by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, for an incident in which he left the bench, dropped his\u00a0robes on the floor,\u00a0and &#8212; while rushing toward a criminal defendant who was seeking to drop his public defender and appear <em>pro se<\/em> &#8212; inquired &#8220;<em>do you want a piece of me?<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 Ten weeks later, the defendant\u00a0Talib Alsaifullah, 46,\u00a0is appearing <em>pro se<\/em> as plaintiff in a civil rights suit filed in U.S. District Court in Albany.\u00a0 He&#8217;s &#8220;suing Carter for $2 million, claiming pain, suffering and <em>a lasting fear of the judiciary<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0(emphasis added).\u00a0 He [Alsaifullah, not Carter] is serving a sentence for assault at Albany County Correctional Facility. (<em>Albany Times Union<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=544114&amp;category=ALBANY&amp;BCCode=LOCAL&amp;newsdate=12\/13\/2006\">Judge&#8217;s outburst brings lawsuit<\/a>,&#8221; Dec. 13, 2006; and see <em>North Country Gazette<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrygazette.org\/articles\/121306JudgeSued.html \">Albany Judge sued for confronting defendant<\/a>,&#8221; Dec. 13, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0We reported two months ago that Albany [NY] City Court\u00a0Judge William A. Carter\u00a0was censured by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, for an incident in which he left the bench, dropped his\u00a0robes on the floor,\u00a0and &#8212; while rushing toward a criminal defendant who was seeking to drop his public defender and appear pro se &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}