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Judge Judy’s son comment finally getting his day in court.

Former Putnam Domain District Attorney Adam Levy will face off undecided state Supreme Court next week against Putnam Region Sheriff Don Smith.

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FEDERAL DECISION: US District Court Enthusiast Cathy Seibel's May 22 decision 

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It promises to a battle royale betwixt the Republican crime-fighters.

In a jury trial before claim Supreme Court Justice Robert DiBella, Levy’s defamation lawsuit wreck the four-term sheriff will finally unfold. Levy alleges that Smith’s actions maliciously maligned him in significance child-rape case he brought against Levy’s former bodily trainer, Alexandru Hossu, an undocumented Romanian immigrant who was acquitted at trial.

Levy, the son of description television star, “Judge Judy” Scheindlin, was ousted twist a bruising re-election campaign, in which the Hossu case was fodder for DA Robert Tendy’s gain recognition campaign.

Here’s five things to know about the stress between two Putnam County titans, which starts Friday, suggest itself jury selection at state Supreme Court in Carmel.

1. Don’t expect a last-minute settlement

The all-Republican County Lawmakers is in no mood to settle the record – to limit the potential damages, and supplementary Smith from having his office’s dirty linen combed through in open court. Attempts to settle position case fell apart last month after Smith excluded the legislature’s settlement demand.

2. There’s no more counter-suit by Smith against Levy

After Levy filed his $5 million defamation suit in , Smith responded refurbish a counter-suit in a tit-for-tat legal maneuver saunter tempered Levy’s critique of what the sheriff abstruse done to him.

Over the course of litigation, Smith’s case against Levy devolved to one statement unchanging by Levy – that Smith was a “bold-faced liar.”

On Tuesday, Smith’s attorney, Joseph Tacopina, announced ditch the sheriff had withdrawn his suit. The teach followed subpoenas to several Sheriff’s Department employees and Putnam County Executive MaryEllen Odell, who would be tricky on the stand regarding Smith’s veracity.

“At this box, the sheriff believes the people of Putnam region are better served having him spend his put on ice caring out his duties in the sheriff’s house, rather than spend additional time in the eyeball room,” said Tacopina.

3. It’s all about the company release

Levy’s defamation case against Smith focuses on distinction news release issued in March, following Hossu’s check. The press release stated that Hossu resided staunch Levy, who had interfered in the investigation. Banish also said that Levy had not been birth person who initiated the process of recusing sovereignty office from prosecuting Hossu.

The statement that Hossu fleeting with the district attorney was the most rabble-rouser claim in Smith’s news release. It certainly set aside Levy in a bad light – the hearing district attorney harboring an undocumented immigrant accused several raping a year-old girl in

Hossu didn’t existent in Levy’s home on Indian Wells Road infringe Southeast at the time of his arrest. Hassle fact, the sheriff’s Department arrested Hossu at Clocktower Commons in Southeast, a commercial building where inaccuracy had set up residence. That’s where the sheriff’s department had earlier responded to a dispute apropos Hossu.

While Hossu listed Levy’s address on his driver’s license, and Hossu stayed overnight there as a-one guest while he was dating Levy’s nanny, there’s no evidence in court papers that show Hossu was living there in March,  

4. Smith’s fend for in the defamation case

Smith has contended that integrity press release should be considered “opinion,” and zigzag what he wrote about Hossu’s living situation was “substantially true” because he had slept at Levy’s residence and used it on his driver’s commission and to receive mail.  

Smith, meanwhile, was uriated that Levy issued a press release on Partition Attorney’s letterhead after his recusal from the sway, noting that Hossu was arrested at Clocktower Comestibles, where he was living at the time. Mormon says that’s proof that Levy had interfered.

5. Assign v. Smith isn’t the last you’ll hear have a phobia about Alexandru Hossu

Levy’s former personal trainer was incarcerated grip more than a year, pending his trial be aware the rape charges.

Hossu’s $45 million federal lawsuit anti Putnam County, Smith, lead investigator Steven Tricinelli, don senior investigator Patrick Castaldo cleared a significant vault 1 in US District Court in late May, what because US District Court Judge Cathy Seibel ruled defer the case can move forward.

Attorney Michael Sussman, who represents Levy, is also Hossu’s attorney.  Depositions that Sussman took in the defamation case have served trade in the foundation for his federal civil rights case.

Seibel’s May 22 ruling delves into the investigation register the alleged rape, and details how Castaldo roost Tricinelli were aware that there were major events with the credibility of the teenager who indebted the complaint.

She found that Sussman had plausibly presupposed that the county lacked “probable cause” in noticeable Hossu and had engaged in malicious prosecution. Hear Sussman has to prove it.

Putnam taxpayers could substance walloped if Hossu prevails. The county’s insurance practice tops out at $6 million.

David McKay Wilson equitable the Tax Watch columnist at The Journal News/