ALBANY – Survivors of sexual assault spoke out this week in a last-ditch effort to block the state Senate from confirming liberal Court of Appeals Associate Judge Rowan Wilson to lead New York’s top court, The Post has learned.
“The Chief Judge has a leadership role in communicating the values and priorities of the court system, and the decision Judge Wilson wrote in People v. Regan sends a message that the rights of rape survivors are not priorities for the Court,” reads an April 17 letter to Gov. Hochul and legislative leaders signed by 21 sexual assault survivors.
“This is unacceptable.”
Wilson was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday evening in a party-line vote despite writing the majority opinion for a controversial March ruling that freed a convicted rapist on technical grounds.
