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...feel indebted to senators who appointed them. Or state judges may be connected to governors or lawyers who nominated them. In a judicial system without checks and popular participation, these judges might engage in corrupt political dealings and remain unaccountable to the public. The current case of Sol Wachtler, chief judge of New York State, who has resigned from the bench in the wake of charges that he threatened to extort money from a woman with whom he had an affair, is indicative of such improprieties...
WITH HIS PHOTO-OP JAW, LUSTROUS CREST OF HAIR and baritone voice, Sol Wachtler could have played a judge on television if he had not actually been one. As chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Wachtler headed one of the nation's most influential state courts. State Republican leaders wanted him to challenge Mario Cuomo if the New York Governor chose to run again in 1994. But nobody is talking much about Wachtler's political future any longer. It's hard to envision the campaign trail of a man under house arrest...
...subway gunman won a dismissal of the charges last January, when a lower court ruled that New York's law on self-defense justified Goetz's actions as "reasonable to him" under the circumstances. Wrong, said Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sol Wachtler. "Reasonable" circumstances must be evaluated by a jury...
...whom they are voting. A Texas poll in 1976 found that only 2% could even remember the names of the county judges on the ballot. A campaign for office is an inexact gauge of how a judge will behave if elected. New York Court of Appeals Judge Sol Wachtler made a TV commercial showing him, dressed in his robes, slamming shut a jail door. This tough-on-crime approach was good politics, but voters favoring a law-and-order man were probably disappointed. Wachtler turned out to be, if anything, defense-minded. To get on a partisan ballot often requires...
...REPORTS: CAMPAIGN AMERICAN STYLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Can an almost unknown candidate become a potential winner in eight months? Jay McMullen and Eric Sevareid zoom in on "the new politics," to show how public relations, advertising and other image makers can "create" a politician-in this case, Sol Wachtler, now a New York State Supreme Court judge. Last November, he became a manufactured but very real threat to New York's Nassau County Executive incumbent, Eugene Nickerson...