BROKEN PROMISES?
Turns out that Hudson Falls Village Court Justice Michael M. Feeder won’t leave the bench quietly. Last week The New York Law Journal reported that Feeder had accepted a stipulation with the Commission on Judicial Conduct to step down over various improprieties. But he says the commission broke a promise to keep the details private, prompting him to fight the allegations. “No member of the staff said any such thing to the Judge or to his Counsel or to anyone else representing the Judge,” said the Commission's Counsel, Robert H. Tembeckjian. 

A.C.S IN THE NEWS (AGAIN) 
David Bookstaver defends a decision by a Queens judge to return a young boy from foster care to his birth mother, despite a pattern of abuse and over a lawyer’s objection. The boy, Jashya Brown, was found dead in his Far Rockaway home on Monday night. “She [the Judge] left the case open and ordered the kids returned on a trial basis and ordered A.C.S. [Administration for Children’s Services] to do intensive supervision,” said Bookstaver. “She did it with the consent of the Law Guardian. He objected to a final order, and the Judge never issued a final order.”

"SHAM" CANDIDATE 
Queens Supreme Court Justice James Dollard has rejected a State Senate bid by a Republican candidate who said he lived in Queens but actually resided in Long Island. Peter Koo was to challenge Democratic incumbent Toby Stavisky. “Peter Koo’s candidacy is a sham,” said a Stavisky spokesman, Joe Reubens. “From his demeanor on the stand, the manner in which he gave testimony, his evasiveness and the inconsistencies in his testimony, the court finds the respondent not to be a credible witness,” Dollard wrote in his opinion.

OR MAYBE IT WAS A MISTAKE... 
And The Queens Gazette has the latest news on the investigation into the shooting at the home of Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho. It was earlier reported that the primary suspect in the case was a former gang member Camacho had put away during his days as a federal prosecutor. But the Gazette writes that a new theory is equally plausible: “The detectives are trying to determine if this guy had anything to do with the shooting,” said a police source. “They are also trying to determine if the shooting was a mistake, if it was pulled off by someone who targeted the wrong house.”