Jon Budelmann is the current first assistant, having climbed to the pinnacle of associate professor of criminal justice at Cayuga Community College and worked his way up the chain to first assistant in his 13 years at the Cayuga DA’s office. He’s even an Eagle Scout. But he wants to be DA, and he wants to make sure his opponent, Michael Bass, a criminal defense lawyer, is punished for being evil.
How do you make sure everyone knows that your criminal defense lawyer is evil? Check out Budelmann’s commercial. As Budelmann says about himself, “One of Jon’s strong points is communication.” Apparently, integrity isn’t in that very short list of strong points.
Putting a crime victim into a commercial, standing alone, is fair game. But using the crime victim to announce that the opponent was the lawyer who represented his attacker for the purpose of suggesting that one candidate stands for crime and criminals is a disgrace. Is it Budelmann’s position that criminal defense lawyers endorse crime? Or does he just want to send that message in his slut-like effort to win.
Is this what Associate Professor Budelmann teaches the students of CCC? That prosecutors are good, and defense lawyers have no place on earth? Or is it that a defense lawyer, by doing his job, is the enemy of society?
Budelmann is slime. If you happen to live in Cayuga County, good luck.
Update: The following letter was submitted on behalf of the NYSACDL to the local news papers in Cayuga County.
Jon Budelmann, who is running for District Attorney of Cayuga County has plunged his campaign into an ethical morass. His recent advertisement suggests that his opponent is in someway less fit to be District Attorney because he has represented people charged with crimes. Has Budelmann completely lost his senses? How can an attorney, no less a career prosecutor, be so wrapped up in his zeal to win at any cost that he loses sight of the basic values which make our country so great. Mike Bass, who is running against Budelmann behaved in the highest and most honorable tradition of American justice by serving as a defense attorney.He follows in the proud tradition of our second President, John Adams, a former criminal defense attorney, who recounted his defense of British soldiers tried in American courts as the pinnacle of his legal career.
Would-be District Attorneys should not be heard to impugn the values of the thousands of dedicated men and women who daily make our criminal justice system work by representing those charged with crimes. Criminal defense attorneys assure that those in a position of power are pressured to follow the rule of law and ethical conduct. But then Budelmann knows that. There is perhaps no higher calling than to be asked to stand beside a person at what may be the nadir of their life and provide a bulwark against overzealous prosecutors. Demanding and assuring the delivery of all of the rights that our forefathers guaranteed to each of us is what criminal defense lawyers do every day. It’s what everyone of us would want if we or a member of our family were so unfortunate as to be charged with a crime.
We take no position as to who might make a better prosecutor in Cayuga County. We do however, like everyone else in Cayuga County, hope that who ever is elected has demonstrated a deep and well earned appreciation of the value that a zealous defense brings to the search for justice in our courts.
Daniel N. Arshack, is President of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
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District Attorney of Cayuga County Jon Budelmann is under investigation for taking a bribe from Lee Enterprises, owner of The Citizen newspaper in Budelmann’s county. In return, Budelmann has allowed Lee Enterprises to use its Auburn paper to run an unemployment insurance fraud scam against company employees to the tune of thousands to help save the company from going out of business.
Also involved are Auburn Police, including the chief, deputy, the current chief detective and his predecessor, who resigned when he realized the felony conspiracy between Budelmann, his former boss, James Varagason, Lee and Auburn Police was being exposed.
Budelmann and his felon friends in Auburn Police also tampered with evidence via making police reports disappear; tampering with witnesses. With Budelmann’s help, certain felon co-conspirators even forged Police reports.
Lee, Budelmann and his felon cop friends get away with this because the local judges were given illegal special treatment in getting elected.
The corruption is so bad, Budelmann’s campaign manager is the boss of Auburn Police’s evidence locker and evidence, with Budelmann’s knowledge, has disappeared.