Syracuse judge walks into the wrong courtroom, gets picked on by judge holding court
Updated May 11, 2021;
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Except another judge was already sitting in the judge’s chair.
Cuffy immediately realized his mistake and hung his head as lawyers, jail deputies and court security burst out laughing.
It didn’t help that Cuffy walked in on perhaps the biggest jokester on the floor. From the bench, Judge Stephen Dougherty didn’t miss a beat. He grabbed the microphone and intoned:
“All rise! Now entering the courtroom, Supreme Court Justice Gordon Cuffy.”
Cuffy’s humorous mistake is the result of a game of musical courtrooms that he and his three counterparts have been playing since courts reopened following the early days of the pandemic.