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Former US Federal Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy Dies From Coronavirus
Source: Voice of America
Former US Federal Judge Duffy Dies From Coronavirus
By VOA News
April 02, 2020 03:35 AM
Former U.S. federal judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, 87, has died from the coronavirus.
Duffy presided over major cases involving organized crime and terrorism during his time on the bench.
His cases included the trial of those responsible for the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center in New York City that killed six people and injured more than 1,000, as well as an aborted plot to blow up planes over the Pacific Ocean.
He was nominated to the federal bench in 1972 by former U.S. President Richard Nixon and retired in 2016.
By VOA News
April 02, 2020 03:35 AM
Former U.S. federal judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, 87, has died from the coronavirus.
Duffy presided over major cases involving organized crime and terrorism during his time on the bench.
His cases included the trial of those responsible for the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center in New York City that killed six people and injured more than 1,000, as well as an aborted plot to blow up planes over the Pacific Ocean.
He was nominated to the federal bench in 1972 by former U.S. President Richard Nixon and retired in 2016.
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/former-us-federal-judge-duffy-dies-coronavirus
U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy, shown here in a 1997 courtroom sketch, presided over the trial of the men behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. (Reuters)
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Source: New York Times
Kevin Thomas Duffy, U.S. Judge in Terrorism Cases, Dies at 87
An independent-minded jurist, he oversaw the World Trade Center bombing trial and another involving a plot to down jetliners. He died of the coronavirus.
By Joseph P. Fried
April 1, 2020
Kevin Thomas Duffy, a federal judge who presided over decades of high-profile trials in Manhattan, including those of mob bosses, radical revolutionaries and the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. He was 87.
A longtime colleague and friend, P. Kevin Castel, said the cause was Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Judge Duffy died in Greenwich Hospital and lived in that town.
Judge Duffy is probably most widely remembered for presiding at the trial of the Islamic militants who were convicted in the 1993 attack on the trade center. He also oversaw another trial in the 1990s involving an aborted plot to blow up as many as a dozen American airliners over the Pacific Ocean.
In the 1970s, he heard a prolonged, contentious case over cleaning up New York City’s air; and in the ’90s he presided in an emotional clash over the exclusion of an Irish gay and lesbian group from the line of march in the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade.
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An independent-minded jurist, he oversaw the World Trade Center bombing trial and another involving a plot to down jetliners. He died of the coronavirus.
By Joseph P. Fried
April 1, 2020
Kevin Thomas Duffy, a federal judge who presided over decades of high-profile trials in Manhattan, including those of mob bosses, radical revolutionaries and the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. He was 87.
A longtime colleague and friend, P. Kevin Castel, said the cause was Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Judge Duffy died in Greenwich Hospital and lived in that town.
Judge Duffy is probably most widely remembered for presiding at the trial of the Islamic militants who were convicted in the 1993 attack on the trade center. He also oversaw another trial in the 1990s involving an aborted plot to blow up as many as a dozen American airliners over the Pacific Ocean.
In the 1970s, he heard a prolonged, contentious case over cleaning up New York City’s air; and in the ’90s he presided in an emotional clash over the exclusion of an Irish gay and lesbian group from the line of march in the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/nyregion/kevin-thomas-duffy-dead.html
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