{"id":4116,"date":"2024-10-24T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2024-10-30T11:45:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T15:45:51","slug":"kenneth-r-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/judges\/kenneth-r-fisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth R. Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1988 \u2013 1995<\/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 in 1988 and served until 1995.<\/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\">Vermont Law School, J.D., 1977<\/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\">Williams College, B.A., 1974<\/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\">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\">Justice, New York State Supreme Court, 1995-2017<\/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\">Deputy County Attorney, Monroe County Law Department, 1984-1988<\/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\">Assistant District Attorney, Monroe County District Attorney\u2019s Office, 1977-1984<\/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\">Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, Department of Justice Strike Force, Organized Crime and Racketeering Division, Rochester, New York, Field Office, 1981-1984<\/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\">Special Counsel, Steuben County District Attorney, 1981-1986<\/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><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\">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><\/p>\n<p><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. Harloff, et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 91CR205:<\/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 a case that threatened to divide the Rochester Police Department (\u201cRPD\u201d), five Rochester Police Department officers were charged with civil rights violations, money thefts, and other crimes while acting in their official capacity as members of an RPD drug interdiction unit.\u00a0 The defendants moved to dismiss the indictment or in the alternative for suppression of evidence on the grounds that the government improperly enlisted the services of one of the defendants\u2019 fellow officers as a government informant.\u00a0 The undercover officer thereafter met with defendants and surreptitiously taped conversations with each of them after the defendants\u2019 attorneys communicated to the government that the defendants were represented and should only be contacted through counsel.\u00a0 Defendants maintained that the government\u2019s use of the undercover informant violated the New York Code of Professional Responsibility and constituted outrageous conduct in violation of their Fifth Amendment Due Process rights.\u00a0 Judge Fisher disagreed, recommending to the district court that the motion to dismiss or suppress be denied in its entirety.\u00a0 Judge Fisher determined that the defendants\u2019 Sixth Amendment rights had not attached at the time of the recordings because the defendants had not yet been indicted.\u00a0 He further concluded that the government was not precluded from investigating \u201ccollateral criminal conduct, such as witness tampering,\u201d through the use of \u201cclandestine informants\u201d so long as the investigation did not \u201cdeliberately elicit incriminating statements concerning the discrete crime for which the constitutional right to counsel has attached.\u201d\u00a0 He noted that none of the recorded communications revealed defense strategy, identification of witnesses, or other evidence.\u00a0 Finally, he held that the government\u2019s use of the undercover informant was not so outrageous as to violate defendants\u2019 Fifth Amendment rights.\u00a0 The District Court adopted Judge Fisher\u2019s recommendation.\u00a0 The five officers were acquitted following a jury trial.<\/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-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. Harloff, et al.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 807 F.\u202fSupp. 270 (W.D.N.Y. 1992)<\/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-harloff-2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/us-v-harloff-2<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\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 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. Miceli<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, No. 9057:<\/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\">The defendant filed a motion seeking to dismiss the indictment and to suppress evidence that he claimed was illegally seized from his business office.\u00a0 The defendant alleged that an investigator with the Internal Revenue Service engaged in outrageous government conduct in violation of the defendant\u2019s due process rights.\u00a0 According to the defendant, during the course of the government\u2019s investigation, the agent engaged in an intimate relationship with the defendant\u2019s estranged wife and induced her to burglarize his business office in order to obtain evidence to be used against the defendant.\u00a0 Judge Fisher found that the agent had not importuned the alleged burglary of the defendant\u2019s office.\u00a0 Although noting that the agent\u2019s conduct with defendant\u2019s estranged wife was troubling and may have violated IRS policy, because it involved a third party and did not rise to the level of coercion or domination of the estranged wife, Judge Fisher recommended against dismissal of the indictment.\u00a0 He also recommended that the district court decline to invoke its supervisory powers to suppress tangible evidence.\u00a0 The District Court adopted Judge Fisher\u2019s recommendation.<\/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-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. Miceli<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 774 F.\u202fSupp. 760 (W.D.N.Y. 1991)<\/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-miceli\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/us-v-miceli<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1988 \u2013 1995\u00a0 Federal Judicial Service:\u00a0 Magistrate Judge, U.S. District  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,37,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judges","category-magistrate-judges","category-past-judges"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","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=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.ca2.uscourts.gov\/wdny-125\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}