 Judge Donnino is presently a judge of the Court of Claims who sits as a Judge of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, and is the Supervising Judge of the County Court. He was first appointed to the bench by Governor Mario Cuomo in 1989.
B.A. Queens College of the City University of NY, 1963; J.D. Fordham University School of Law, 1966.
Judge Donnino began his legal career in 1966 as an assistant district attorney in New York County. In 1971, he was appointed Assistant Counsel to Governor Rockefeller. In 1974, he was appointed Deputy Commissioner and Counsel to the New York State Department of Correctional Services which at that time included the Division of Parole. In 1975, he joined the Nassau County District Attorney's Office as Chief of the Appeals Bureau. In 1982, he joined the Kings County District Attorney's Office where he served as the Chief Assistant District Attorney. In 1988, he joined Kase and Druker as Counsel, and also served as Counsel to the New York State Senate Committee on Crime and Correction. In 1989, he was appointed to the bench.
He is the author of the Practice Commentaries for McKinney’s NY Penal Law and the New York Court of Appeals on Criminal Law 2d (West Group).
He is presently a member of the Office of Court Administration (OCA) Committee to Revise the Criminal Jury Instructions, and has in the past served as Chair of the OCA Committee on Evaluation of Cameras in the Court, Co-chair of the OCA Committee on Automation for Judges, and as a member of the OCA Advisory Committee on Criminal Law & Procedure, the New York State Commission on Criminal Sanctions, and the Advisory Committee to the Law Revision Commission on the Defense of Insanity.
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