H. Lee Sarokin
| H. Lee Sarokin | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | |
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In office October 5, 1994 – July 31, 1996 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Succeeded by | Maryanne Barry |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | |
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In office November 2, 1979 – October 5, 1994 |
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| Appointed by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Lawrence Whipple |
| Succeeded by | Katharine Hayden |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Haddon Lee Sarokin November 25, 1928 Perth Amboy, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Dartmouth College Harvard University |
Haddon Lee Sarokin (born November 25, 1928) is a retired U.S. district judge and U.S. appeals court judge. Sarokin served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1994 until 1996.
Sarokin was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey. He is the son of a newspaperman who named him after Haddon Ivins, who had been the editor of the Hudson Dispatch. "It's a dreadful name, which I dropped," Sarokin told the New York Times in 1985.
Sarokin earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1950 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1953.
Sarokin worked in private practice in Newark, New Jersey from 1955 until 1979. He also concurrently served as an assistant counsel for Union County, New Jersey, from 1959 until 1965.
In 1978, Sarokin worked as the finance chairman for his friend Bill Bradley, who was running for a U.S. Senate seat to represent New Jersey. After Bradley won, he recommended Sarokin for a federal judgeship. On September 28, 1979, President Carter nominated Sarokin to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey that had been vacated by Lawrence Whipple. The U.S. Senate confirmed Sarokin on October 31, 1979.
In 1985, Sarokin famously overturned the 1967 triple murder conviction of former middleweight boxer Rubin Carter resulting in Carter's release and a granting of a writ of habeas corpus to the former middleweight boxer. Sarokin had ruled that Carter had not received a fair trial as the prosecution had been based on 'racism rather than reason' and 'concealment rather than disclosure'.
In 1988, Sarokin presided over a landmark cigarette liability lawsuit that resulted in a $400,000 payment to the estate of Rose Cipollone, who died in 1984 after smoking for 40 years. Although the case was reversed on appeal, it was the first cash award ever in a case involving a death from smoking.
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