Justice Gustin L. Reichbach, carefree life, what happened to the fraternity to guide the student protests at Columbia University in 1968 after a career as a fiercely independent lawyer and judge, died Saturday in Brooklyn. He was 65.
The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer, his wife, Ellen Meyers said.
Through six decades of countless incarnations, Justice Reichbach condominiums as a student at Columbia, has won a court case that helped legalize the attic of residential life at SoHo and TriBeCa, a state body to jump from the bench to ignore the Medicaid fraud and served as a judge in a court of war crimes in Kosovo.
Elected to the New York State Supreme Court in 1999, has decorated her room with pictures of Paul Robeson, Clarence Darrow and the miners on strike, and a neon sign showing the scales of justice.
Justice Reichbach was born October 9, 1946 in Brooklyn, and grew up in Flatbush, one of the two sons of a driver who organized unions. After graduating from Midwood School, he attended the State University of Buffalo, where he was president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity. As the war in Vietnam was increasing, the arrival of a military recruitment office of the ROTC on campus in a radical spirit was awakened by Mr. Reichbach said Daniel L. Alterman, a friend who participated with him in Buffalo.
His commitment to radical politics took power when he was admitted to Columbia University law. A classmate, Bruce Ratner, now a real estate developer, recalled meeting with him while they were doing to pay tuition fees row in September 1967.
"This guy with long hair and curly, blond, almost white, began to speak with a Brooklyn accent that sounded like the right of 'On the Waterfront' and asked me if I had found a place to stay, "Mr. Ratner said. By the time he reached the top of the line, Mr. Ratner was invited to sleep in his apartment on the road 103.
As leader of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, an organization founded in 1960 to protest U.S. foreign policy and national, Mr. Reichbach shown on the cover of Newsweek magazine face to face with the police during occupation of buildings on campus. "For Gus, was a great thing to go to law school, and these days an arrest could mean they were about to become a lawyer," said Ratner.
Released on parole after harsh disciplinary hearings, Mr. Reichbach discovered when he graduated in 1970 that a teacher had written to the College of Lawyers of New York, opposed to his own admission, a question was His co-author of "The Book Chest" with, among others, Kathy Boudin, then list the most sought by the FBI for blowing up a house in Greenwich Village.
Wait two years to be accepted, he worked for the New York Law Collective, an organization that has shared their profits equally between the attorneys and staff, and has provided legal assistance, among others, Abbie Hoffman and the members of Panthers Reds.
When he was admitted to the extreme, his practice includes artists who had moved to the industrial loft in Lower Manhattan and were evicted by the owners who said they had no right to permanent residence.
His first choice was the civil court judge in 1990, less than 150 votes. It was immediately transferred to a criminal court in the night. Three months after his term, after the arraignments the night parade of prostitutes who were released immediately, Justice Reichbach contact a group that provided condoms and HIV testing and counseling.
"They were not exactly in the courtroom," recalled Justice Reichbach. "I invited them to set up a table right in front of the doors."
To his delight, was called the "Condom Judge" on the first page of the Daily News. This dissatisfaction with their supervisors, who had no knowledge of the initiative, she moved back to civilian courts. We ask that the owner is limited to one of their hazardous properties until the violations have been cleared.
In court, Judge Reichbach wore clothes only during sentencing. A white scarf usually accentuates their three-piece suits, with a Phi Beta Kappa key from his student days. His curly hair lost all its exuberance in gray.
He presided over the murder of test results, and the occasional fight with the prosecutors did not leave any trace of rancor. "His death is a great loss to the profession," Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, said in a statement.
Reichbach Mr. and Mrs. Meyers were the parents of a daughter, Hope, who died in 2011. Besides his wife, surviving him a brother, Eliyahu Ben-Haim.
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