Steven W. Forrest

Judge Steven W. Forrest currently presides in City Court in Chemung County and has served as a New York judge for 21 years.

Judge Forrest was most recently elected to the bench for a term beginning in 2020 and ending in 2025.

To view Judge Forrest’s profile on the New York State Courts website, click here.

Judicial metrics

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Publication Rate: 0.2 decisions per year

Higher than 54.29% of judges in the dataset

Suppression Reversal Rate: 0.0%

Higher than 0% of judges in the dataset

Excessive Sentence Findings: 0 cases

Higher than 0% of judges in the dataset

Excessive Sentence Reductions: 0.0 years

Higher than 0% of judges in the dataset

Reassigned Reversals: 0 cases

Higher than 0% of judges in the dataset

Favored Commercial Bonds: 55.6% of bail cases

Higher than 17.37% of judges in the dataset

Blocked Affordable Bail: 97.8% of bail cases

Higher than 64.31% of judges in the dataset

Public Discipline: 0 determinations

Higher than 0% of judges in the dataset

Disproportionate Carcerality

Not applicable: judge absent from dataset

Published Decisions

2 decisions

2024

Matter of Lewis

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2024

Matter of Lewis v. NYS Dept. of Corr. & Community Supervision

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