George E. Fufidio

Sentenced Kenya Tilford to life in prison without parole after Westchester County's first torture-murder trial, and issued permanent protection orders for the victims.

April 23, 2026

Source: westchesterda.net

A state appeals court reversed his denial, without a hearing, of a murder defendant's claim that his trial lawyer was ineffective, and ordered a hearing on the claim.

February 11, 2026

Source: nycourts.gov

Accepted a guilty plea from a man charged with shooting three people and killing a teenager in Somers. He said the plea spared the victims' families from reliving the crime at a long trial.

October 23, 2025

Source: abc7ny.com

A state appeals court reversed his ruling that had upheld a Mount Pleasant zoning board's denial of a street-frontage variance, and sent the case back to the board.

July 30, 2025

Source: nycourts.gov

A state appeals court reversed his dismissal of an indictment for attempted rape and assault. It said he wrongly put his own view of the evidence in place of a jury's, and it reinstated the charges.

June 25, 2025

Source: nycourts.gov

A state appeals court threw out one reckless endangerment conviction from a 2018 trial he presided over, finding the evidence fell short on that count. It upheld the other convictions.

May 21, 2025

Source: nycourts.gov

A state appeals court dismissed a second lawsuit by the same gun owner. It found he reasonably refused to treat the request as a concealed-carry application before the required training and interview.

January 8, 2025

Source: nycourts.gov

Ordered the City of Mount Vernon to release police discipline records to a newspaper and pay its legal fees, after the city ignored the public-records request. An appeals court upheld the fee award in 2026.

December 13, 2023

Source: nycourts.gov

A state appeals court overturned his 2022 denial of a request to expand a pistol license. He had applied a 'proper cause' test that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down, so the case went back to him.

September 27, 2023

Source: nycourts.gov

After a hearing, denied a woman's request for a shorter sentence under the state's Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act for a manslaughter conviction. An appeals court affirmed in 2025.

March 29, 2023

Source: nycourts.gov

Ruled that the Yonkers City Council wrongly denied a permit for a convenience store at a gas station, mainly because neighbors objected, and ordered the permit issued. An appeals court affirmed in 2025.

March 30, 2022

Source: nycourts.gov

In a trial without a jury, found a drunk driver guilty of two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. An appeals court upheld the conviction in 2025.

March 28, 2022

Source: nycourts.gov

As the county's pistol licensing officer, revoked a man's gun license after his 11-year-old son took the gun from an unlocked safe and posted a video with it. A state appeals court upheld the revocation in 2021.

May 6, 2020

Source: nycourts.gov

Worked as a Westchester County assistant district attorney from 1982 to 1988, rising to deputy chief of the Homicide and Special Investigations Bureau.

March 20, 2016Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: theexaminernews.com