{"id":4085,"date":"2024-10-23T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2024-12-06T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:53:45","slug":"h-kenneth-schroeder-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/judges\/h-kenneth-schroeder-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2000 \u2013 present<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\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\">Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York.\u00a0 Entered duty on June 1, 2000, and reappointed to additional eight-year terms in 2008, 2016 and 2024.<\/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\">University of Buffalo School of Law, J.D., 1961<\/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\">Judge E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship, Georgetown University Law School, resulting in L.L.M.. and Certificate of Proficiency in Trial Advocacy, 1961-1962<\/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\">Canisius College, B.S., 1958<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professional Career:<\/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\">\u00a0Private Practice, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods &amp; Goodyear, LLP, 1964-1969, 1972-2000<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;469777462&quot;:[720,1440],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0,0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1,1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, 1969-1972<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:2160,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:2160,&quot;469777462&quot;:[720,1440,2160],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0,0,0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1,1,1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1963<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:2160,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:2160,&quot;469777462&quot;:[720,1440,2160],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0,0,0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1,1,1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Trial Attorney,<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Criminal Division, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, 1962-1963<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Noteworthy Cases:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States v. Goba, et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 1:02-MJ-00107:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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\">On the one-year anniversary of the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the Buffalo Division of the FBI presented Judge Schroeder with a criminal complaint charging six U.S. citizens from Lackawanna, New York with conspiring to provide and attempt to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization based upon their travel to an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan several months prior to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.\u00a0 Judge Schroder presided over their initial appearances and detention hearings, which received international media attention.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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\">United States v. Goba<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 220 F.\u202fSupp.\u202f2d. 182 (W.D.N.Y. 2002)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/us-v-goba-wdny-2002?q=Goba&amp;sort=relevance&amp;p=1&amp;type=case\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/us-v-goba-wdny-2002?q=Goba&amp;sort=relevance&amp;p=1&amp;type=case<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States v. Benatta<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 1:01-CR-00247:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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\">A member of the Algerian Air Force who had completed aviation training in the United States under a nonimmigrant B-1 visitor visa attempted to enter Canada to apply for asylum but was returned to the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement on September 12, 2001, and charged as removable as an alien who had remained in the United States longer than authorized.\u00a0 On September 16, 2001, without opportunity to confer with counsel, he was taken into custody by the United States Marshals Service and transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn New York where he was held in special housing as a high security detainee and interrogated by FBI agents assigned to the Terrorist Task Force.\u00a0 Although an indictment was returned on December 12, 2001, defendant was not arraigned until April 9, 2002.\u00a0 While recognizing that the events of September 11, 2001, necessitated extraordinary action by the government to prevent further acts of terrorism and to apprehend all those involved in those despicable acts, Judge Schroeder determined that defendant had been subjected to undue and oppressive incarceration in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial and that his rights under the Speedy Trial Act had been violated.\u00a0 The Hon. John T. Elfvin adopted Judge Schroeder\u2019s report and recommendation and dismissed the indictment.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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\">United States v. Benatta<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 2003 WL 22202371 (W.D.N.Y. 2003)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/us-v-benatta\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/us-v-benatta<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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. Swindle<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 1:02-CR-00118:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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\">In <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States v. Swindle<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 407 F.3d 562, <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cert. denied<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 546 U.S. 913 (2005), the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered an issue of first impression and found that even though law enforcement clearly abused their authority when they initiated a stop of defendant\u2019s automobile, they were constrained to affirm Judge Schroeder\u2019s report and recommendation, adopted by the Hon. William M. Skretny, denying defendant\u2019s motion to suppress the seizure of a plastic bag of crack cocaine.\u00a0 Judge Schroeder\u2019s decision was based on the fact that defendant failed to stop as directed by law enforcement and was not physically apprehended until after he had been observed violating traffic laws, discarding the plastic bag from the automobile window, and fleeing the automobile on foot.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/court\/us-2nd-circuit\/1278806.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/court\/us-2nd-circuit\/1278806.html<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2000 \u2013 present\u00a0 Federal Judicial Service:\u00a0 Magistrate Judge, U.S. District  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,35,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-judges","category-judges","category-magistrate-judges"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}