George Bundy Smith
George Bundy Smith (April 7, 1937 – August 5, 2017) was a lawyer and judge in New York State. While he was a law student at Yale University, he was part of the Freedom Ride from Atlanta, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama.[1][2]
Smith was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in Washington, D.C.. He studied at Phillips Academy and at Yale University.
Smith was a judge of the New York City Civil Court from 1975 to 1979 and a justice of the New York State Supreme Court from 1980 to 1986. In 1986, Governor Mario Cuomo appointed Smith to the Appellate Division, First Department, where he served from 1986 to 1992. Smith's best-known opinion for the Court was People v. LaValle, a 4-to-3 decision holding that New York's death penalty statute was unconstitutional due to the structure of its sentencing procedures.[3]
In 2006, Governor George Pataki was urged to reappoint Smith to another term on the Court of Appeals, although Smith would have served only another 16 months on the Court before mandatory retirement at age 70.[4]
Smith died on August 5, 2017 in Harlem, New York at the age of 80.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Retired NY Appeals Court Judge George Bundy Smith Dies at 80". The New York Times. August 8, 2017. Archived from the original on August 9, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
- ↑ "Roster of Freedom Riders". American Experience, PBS. Archived from the original on 2017-01-07. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ↑ "N.Y. Court Ruling Appears to Invalidate Death Sentences". The New York Times. June 24, 2004. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
- ↑ Cooper, Michael (June 21, 2006). "A Place on the Bench Puts Pataki on the Spot". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
Other websites
- Ben Smith, "Judgement Day Approaches for George Bundy Smith", New York Daily News online, August 18, 2006 Archived September 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- Remarks of Chief Judge Judith M. Kaye on presentation of Cromwell Award, December 13, 2005 Archived December 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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