US Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin Visits with Cadets

US Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin visited with cadets in the Advanced Constitutional Law seminar taught by Department of Law Professor and Constitutional Law Chair, Tony DiSarro. Judge Chin was appointed to the federal appeals court by President Obama in 2010 and serves on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. He was the first Asian-American ever appointed to a federal appeals court. Prior to that, he was a federal district court judge, having been appointed by President Clinton in 1994. He was also an Assistant US Attorney under Rudy Giuliani in the Southern District of New York, and practiced law as a private attorney. Judge Chin had a lively discussion with the cadets about searches and seizures and the 4th Amendment. He also explained his reasons, when he was a district court judge, for sentencing convicted fraudster and septuagenarian Bernard Madoff to a 150-year prison term.