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 ...
An upstate New York judge resigned after making a startling admission to his fellow jurors in a ploy to escape jury duty. When Petersburgh Town Justice Richard T. Snyder showed up for his ...
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.