JUDGE DOESN'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE LAW...IF IT IS APPLIED TO HER

by Bob Walsh

Leticia Astacio, 35, is a county judge in Rochester in upstate New York. Earlier this year she did a brief stint as a guest of the county for a DUI. OK, no big deal, it can happen to someone, even a judge. It is kind of odd though that her own lawyer told the court that he thought there was no way she would abide by the conditions of her probation and that she flatly "refused" to do probation..

She was released on July 13 after doing her 60 days. Much of her time was in pre-trial detention. Odd that she didn't get released prior to that on bail or some other conditional release. She was also sentenced to 3 years probation and had to wear an alcohol monitor ankle bracelet for six months.

The very next day, July 14, he monitor went off, showing a 0.127 BAC hit. She asserted to the probation officer that her foot cream must have triggered it. One of the terms of her probation specifies that she can not use products that contain alcohol.

A petition to remove her from the bench as "grossly unfit" is currently making the rounds. Sounds fair to me.