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The panel wanted her canned for telling a court officer to escort robbery suspect Derek Sterling out a rear door to an elevator reserved for judges and out of the sight of a detective waiting for him.
Blackburne was presiding over a Queens drug treatment court on June 10, 2004, when Detective Leonard Devlin asked to question Sterling about a violent robbery. Believing Devlin was using “a ruse,” as Blackburne put it, she instead had Sterling escorted out a backdoor. Sterling was later arrested at a drug treatment center but, ultimately, was cleared of the robbery charges.
Blackburne, a protege of former Mayor David Dinkins, headed the city Housing Authority during his administration. But she later resigned after embarrassing revelations that she had spent lavishly to furnish her office - including the purchase of a pink leather couch.
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