People v. Correa

By striking down the Bronx Criminal Division (BCD) and limiting the historically broad jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, the majority today, demonstrating unbridled judicial activism, effectively upends tens of thousands of misdemeanor convictions adjudicated in Bronx County over the last five years and threatens to diminish the independence of the Judiciary. Because I believe that the Legislature, cognizant of the great wisdom inherent in the separation of powers doctrine, delegated to the Chief Judge the authority to create the BCD, and because Supreme Court unquestionably possesses the…