Shocking news. Retired Judge Emanuel "Mike" Cassimatis died while vacationing in Rome at age 83.
Judge Cassimatis was one of the great ones, a judge whose temperment and knowledge of the law placed him in the upper echelon of our judiciary.
Beyond that, he was just a good man. I always recall running into him at the Greek Food Festivals at the church -- he usually ran the cash register. One of the reasons the line moved so slowly is that Judge Cassimatis had to talk to everybody coming through the line. It wasn't a bother because it was always good to see him and have a chance to say hello and you knew that others felt the same way.
Every lawyer in town has probably heard the story he always told to describe circumstantial evidence. The story involved cookies with powdered sugar and his son.
He was an advocate for children. As longtime juvenile public defender Barbara Lee Krier, Cassimatis's law clerk in 1981-82, said, "Everything done in the commonwealth in the last 30 years concerning juvenile justice is based on his work."
Read Judge Cassimatis' obit here.
Leave a comment