The Court of Appeals (photo: Mike Groll/Governor's Office)
Governor Kathy Hochul’s appointment of Judge Rowan Wilson to be the new Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals was widely praised by practitioners, bar associations, and legal academics, who hailed the selection of a brilliant and respected jurist to be New York’s first Black Chief Judge.
But criticism at Wilson’s confirmation hearing centered on a recent majority opinion he wrote in People v.
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