William Wright

William Wright was a judge in New York City who was known for making controversial rulings as well as disagreeing with prosecutors. His son Steven Wright is also a judge who often deals with cases brought by the Remnant.
In 1998, he overturned the rape convictions of a group of teenage boys who had sex with a mentally handicapped teenage girl, citing her testimony that it was consensual despite Jack McCoy's attempts to prove otherwise. When he attempted to advise Steven on a similar case, Steven told him what he thought of this ruling.
In 1999, he overturned a conviction against a gun manufacturer, who had sold guns that could be modified to make them even more deadly, because the prosecution was unable to establish how hazardous the weapon used in a mass murder was, nor that the shooter used it as intended by the manufacturer.
In 2000, he confronts Interim District Attorney Nora Lewin with McCoy's history of "stunts" in his courtroom and then threatened to dismiss cases brought by her ADAs based on their merits after Lewin threatened to file a grievance against him which resulted in Lewin threatening to report Wright to the appellate division and ruin his career.
Sometime in 2004, Wright presided over a case in which Ryan Pratchard served as the defense attorney. During the trial, Wright became extremely annoyed with a number of Ryan's stunts which included calling surprise witnesses and grandstanding both of which were tactics used by McCoy in the past. He mentions this trial in a 2007 meeting with Davin Felth after finding out that Davin was letting Ryan serve as lead prosecutor in an upcoming trial that Wright would be presiding over. Much like Lewin however, Felth refused to be intimidated and informed Wright that he could find himself explaining his conduct to the appellate division among other committees. Wright went on to judge the trial fairly fearing that Felth was more likely to make good on his threats then Lewin.
In 2019, Steven references his father's relationship with McCoy during a review of the conduct of Judge Jennifer Khayman towards teenage defendant Diego Perez who was before the younger Wright for trial on charges of attacking Darius Carpenter and throwing a punch at New York City Police Department Detective Jamal Wilkins suggesting that Khayman's courtroom conduct during Perez's arraignment was worse then any stunt McCoy had pulled on his father before dismissing a number of charges against Perez after finding as a matter of law that Khayman had provoked Perez and crossed the line when she ordered Stormtroopers to either gag or shoot Perez.
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