![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thursday’s hearing was delayed by technical issues, Mr. Thornhill said, and he thought it was likely that the clerk had assumed she was muted. Her remarks seemed to be prompted, he said, by the way his client was wearing his pants. “It was like she was thinking out loud, and everybody heard what she was thinking,” he said. The president of the New York State Court Clerks Association could not be reached, and others with the association did not immediately return requests for comment. A call to a woman believed to be the clerk went unreturned, and she did not respond to a text message. Chalfen would not elaborate on the details of the case, saying that a transcript of the hearing would not be available because it had occurred in Family Court, where proceedings are often kept private because they involve young people. Racist conduct among court personnel has been a subject of particular concern since the spring of 2020 when, after the killing of George Floyd, Judge DiFiore asked a team led by Jeh C. Johnson, a former Homeland Security secretary, to conduct a review of racial bias within the state’s court system. It highlighted several examples, including one white officer who posted on social media an illustration of President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck and another who referred to a Black colleague as “one of the good monkeys.” Their report found that racism was rampant in the system and was prevalent among court officers in particular. Johnson’s report did not deal as directly with any potential issues among the ranks of New York’s court clerks, who play an administrative role within the system, taking filings, maintaining calendars and generally acting as liaisons between judges and lawyers. ![]()
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