To the Editor:

There is a County Court Judge election in St. Lawrence County this November. Greg Storie is running on the Republican, Conservative and Independence party lines. Nicole Duve is running on the Democratic and Working Families party lines.

But, I don’t care about party affiliations when it comes to judges. I am interested in what the candidates have done in their careers leading up to their run for judge.

Duve says she has the experience that matters to be judge, but it looks like Duve hasn’t tried a case in over seven years. Since losing the DA race in 2013, Duve likely hasn’t stepped into a courtroom as a litigator once.

In 2014 she worked for an ambulance chaser in Ogdensburg, maybe she tried a case then. When Duve was the DA she tried a few cases for sure. There was the Wayne Oxley trial. She took that case to trial three times before she got a not guilty verdict. That’s trial experience. However, there’s the Hillary murder case. Duve didn’t get any trial experience on that one. In an interview with NPR during her failed DA run in 2013, Duve said “To say that a trial is the end all be all and a trial conviction is the end-all be-all isn’t necessarily true.” This sounds like an excuse for a less than stellar record.

Unlike Duve, Greg Storie has actually spent the last 13 years in the courtrooms of St. Lawrence County trying and litigating cases nearly every day. Greg has years of experience handling criminal cases in Town Courts and County Court.

He has spent years as an attorney for the child in Family Court defending children against neglect and abuse. He has spent years defending children accused of criminal behavior. Greg has tried hundreds of cases in his career.

I am voting for Greg Storie for County Court Judge.

Alyssa C. Curley

Chase Mills