“I AM WALKING RIGHT OUT OF THIS COURTROOM”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, REPORTS INDICATE JUDGE JANICE ROBINSON FREED TWO ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDERERS WITH NO BAIL SET… AND PARTY INSIDERS CONTINUE TO CONTROL APPOINTMENTS ACROSS NEW YORK COURTS.
New York City continues to deal with the fallout of the Empire State’s judicial selection system.
Placing judges like Janice Robinson on the local bench is only one damaging result of that process.
The existing framework also feeds widespread corruption across the court system.
Judge Robinson spins the revolving doors of the criminal justice system like a crooked roulette wheel.
Violent and dangerous defendants are released as soon as they are arraigned.
Her rulings include releasing two alleged attempted murderers without setting any bail.
Those defendants were allowed to walk out of court with no financial conditions attached.
She has never agreed with a prosecutor’s recommendation to set bail.
She has never agreed with a prosecutor’s recommendation to hold a defendant on remand.
But she is not an isolated problem on the bench.
She represents the standard outcome of the state’s compromised judicial system.
City courts remain the final vestige of Tammany-style political bossism.
Judges are overwhelmingly selected without regard to merit.
The process is driven entirely by the needs of local Democratic leaders.
Those party chiefs maintain full control over the judicial-screening panels.
Any candidate who secures a spot on the ballot wins the election automatically.
The system was designed by political insiders.
The system is operated by political insiders.
The system exists entirely to benefit political insiders.
Insurgent candidates rarely bother running for seats on the bench.
Winning an election against the party apparatus is virtually impossible.
Judge Robinson holds close personal ties to established political figures in the state.
She is the niece of Nick Perry.
Perry served as the longtime assemblyman representing East Flatbush.
He held the position of majority whip for two decades.
Perry later stepped down from his legislative role to serve as the United States Ambassador to Jamaica.
Once elected, lower-level Civil Court judges like Robinson can be moved up to fill Criminal Court vacancies.
That is the specific bench where she currently presides.
The Criminal Court bench is normally a mayor-appointed position subject to higher scrutiny.
Robinson previously received a “not approved” rating from the city Bar Association.
She has been characterized as an unqualified political beneficiary.
She would struggle to pass scrutiny from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary.
Yet state Democrats who control the courts rely on workarounds to secure plum jobs for party favorites.
Those maneuvers allow favored candidates to step into positions through interim appointments.
The arrangement consistently rewards political loyalty over qualifications.
Many political insiders actively support decarceral justice platforms.
They embrace ideological positions aimed at abolishing prisons.
Judges who reach the bench through this process frequently align with defendant-friendly ideologies.
Robinson reflects that ideological pattern in her courtroom decisions.
Other judicial officials across the system are driven by financial self-interest.
The Surrogate’s Court demonstrates clear examples of that venality.
Some individuals on the bench focus entirely on collecting their paychecks.
Meanwhile, the state Legislature has created widespread disorder within the criminal statutory code.
But county Democratic Party chiefs bear the primary responsibility for burdening the public with ineffective judges.
They control the screening panels.
They control the ballot lines.
They control the revolving door.
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