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State House News second "puff piece" on LGBT activist Vickie Henry, Governor's nominee for Appeals Court - day after vote.Normally, a judicial nominee gets a sentence or two in a compendium of the day's events. But this is the liberal media ...
HENRY APPROVED FOR APPEALS COURT BENCH By Andy Metzger STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 9, 2015....On a 7 to 1 vote Wednesday the Governor's Council approved Appeals Court nominee Vicki Henry. Since 2011 Henry has been the youth initiative director and senior staff attorney at Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, and before that she was partner at Foley Hoag, where she litigated intellectual property, product liability and other commercial matters. Henry clerked under Justice Denise Johnson at the Vermont Supreme Court in the early to mid-1990s and later worked at an Oakland, California law firm. "I've always wanted to be a state appellate court judge ever since that clerkship. I recognize every case is important to every party and therefore important, period," Henry said at her confirmation hearing. Councilor Jennie Caissie said she voted against Henry because of her lack of trial experience. "She lacks the requisite Trial Court experience to sit in judgement of Trial Court decisions on the Appeals Court," Caissie told the News Service. "During her hearing it came out that she has had five trials in 15 years, and I've been very consistent that in order to sit on the Appeals Court as a practitioner you either need extensive Trial Court experience or you should be a sitting judge." Caissie also said Henry had gone "on a tangent" about Annie Dookhan - the chemist whose fraudulent handling of drug evidence threw thousands of convictions into legal limbo - when asked about specialty courts, such as drug courts. Henry is a Jamaica Plain resident and a graduate of Wellesley College and Boston University School of Law. "The Appeals Court is very grateful to have another set of hands there to deal with the volume of work that they have," Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito said after Henry's confirmation. -END- Serving the working press since 1910 |
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