{"id":3755,"date":"2024-03-01T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2024-10-25T09:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:12:43","slug":"charles-j-siragusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/judges\/charles-j-siragusa\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles J. Siragusa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1997 \u2013 present<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Federal Judicial Service:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Nominated by President William J. Clinton on July 15, 1997, to a seat vacated by Hon. Michael A. Telesca.\u00a0 Confirmed by the Senate on October 30, 1997, and received commission on November 5, 1997.\u00a0 Assumed senior status on December 15, 2012.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Education:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Albany Law School, J.D., 1976<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">LeMoyne College, B.A., 1976<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professional Career:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Justice, New York State Supreme Court, Seventh Judicial District, 1993-1997<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Assistant District Attorney, Monroe County, New York, 1977-1992<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Noteworthy cases:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Galloway v. Town of Greece, et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">No. 6:08-CV-06088:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Residents brought a civil rights action against the Town of Greece, alleging that the town\u2019s practice of opening town board meetings with prayer violated the First Amendment\u2019s Establishment Clause.\u00a0 Judge Siragusa granted summary judgment in favor of the town, finding that the practice did not violate the Establishment Clause.\u00a0 The residents appealed, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, reversed.\u00a0 Certiorari was granted.\u00a0 The United States Supreme Court overruled the Second Circuit and found that the town did not violate the First Amendment by opening town board meetings with prayer that comported with tradition of the United States.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Galloway v. Town of Greece<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 732 F.\u202fSupp.\u202f2d 195, 197 (W.D.N.Y. 2010), <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rev\u2019d<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 681 F.3d 20 (2d Cir. 2012), <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rev\u2019d sub nom. Town of Greece, N.Y. v. Galloway<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 572 U.S. 565, 134 S.\u202fCt. 1811, 188 L. Ed. 2d 835 (2014).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/galloway-v-town-of-greece-2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/galloway-v-town-of-greece-2<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States v. Richard Leon Wilbern<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 6:17-CR-06017:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On August 12, 2003, an individual walked into Xerox Federal Credit Union, located on the Xerox Corporation campus in Webster, NY.\u00a0 In the course of committing a robbery, the individual then shot customer Raymond Batzel in the neck, resulting in his death.\u00a0 A second customer, Joseph Doud, was shot and wounded as he attempted to run outside after witnessing the shooting.\u00a0 The assailant subsequently fled the credit union with a bag of money but left behind an umbrella.\u00a0 In March 2016, with a suspect still not in custody, a press conference was held seeking new leads in the investigation.\u00a0 On March 27, 2016, a concerned citizen contacted the FBI and indicated that the person who committed the crime was likely a former Xerox employee named Richard Wilbern, who had been fired by Xerox prior to the robbery.\u00a0 In July 2016, FBI agents met with Wilbern about a complaint he had made to the FBI regarding an alleged real estate scam.\u00a0 During one of their meetings, agents obtained a DNA sample from Wilbern after he licked and sealed an envelope.\u00a0 That DNA was compared to DNA taken from the umbrella left behind by the suspect the day of the robbery and was determined to be a positive match.\u00a0 Wilbern was convicted by a jury of robbery resulting in the death of Mr. Batzel and sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States v. Michael Jackson, Russell Hampton, and Dearick Smith<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 6:09-CR-06064:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prior to approximately 2009, the \u201cChain Gang\u201d aka \u201cWolfpack,\u201d operated in Rochester, N.Y., as a violent street gang, the members of which sold narcotics and committed violence principally in the areas of Chamberlain and Garson Avenues.\u00a0 A federal RICO indictment charged 19 gang members with conspiring to use their membership in the Chain Gang to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity that included multiple acts of violence and drug trafficking, including the 2007 murder of Carmella Rogers and the attempted murder of several rival gang members.\u00a0 Jackson, Hampton, and Smith were convicted in July 2011, after a five week jury trial.\u00a0 All other Chain Gang defendants were also convicted in other proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1997 \u2013 present\u00a0 Federal Judicial Service:\u00a0 Judge, U.S. District Court,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,36,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-judges","category-district-judges","category-judges"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}