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A notoriously lenient Bronx judge who’s made headlines for allowing violent teens to be cut loose on bail will no longer handle youth cases, The Post has learned.
Acting Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle is transferring from the youth part to handle adult trials and hearings instead at his own request, according to the state Office of Court Administration.
“The judge felt that at the beginning of this year he was in the last stage of his career after 30 years on the bench and wanted to get back to his first love, which is hearings and trials,” OCA spokesman Lucian Chalfen said in an email.
But Boyle’s tenure presiding over criminal cases involving younger defendants has recently garnered outrage from New York’s Finest.
The veteran jurist, 67, drew heat last week when a teen rapper accused of shooting an NYPD cop was freed after posting the $250,000 bond set by the judge — even though Bronx prosecutors wanted him locked up without bail.
Camrin Williams, 16, is charged with assault and gun possession for wounding the cop during a scuffle on Jan. 18.
“Shame on Judge Denis Boyle for allowing this to happen,” PBA president Patrick Lynch said in a statement after Williams was freed.
“The people of the Bronx won’t be safe as long as he’s been on the bench.”
Boyle also lowered the bail on 17-year-old Darryl Burnett, who was charged with attempted murder in an attack on an elderly Marine Corps vet — only to have the teen make bail and get busted again in November with a .38-caliber handgun.
Burnett had been held on $100,000 cash or a $200,000 bond until the judge lowered the amount to $50,000 cash or bond, which the teen was able to post.
In May, Boyle ordered probation for Steven Mendez, an 18-year-old reputed gang banger, after he pleaded guilty to a violent 2020 armed robbery, even though the teen could have done four years in state prison for the crime.
Once back on the streets, Mendez allegedly shot and killed college student Saiko Koma, 21, in October in what sources said was a case of mistaken identity.
In June, Alberto Ramirez, another reputed teenage gangster — who was released after Boyle lowered his bail — allegedly gunned down 34-year-old dad Eric Velasquez.
Ramirez, 16, was being held on $75,000 bail on a gun charge but was allowed back on the streets after Boyle reduced it to $10,000.
And last year, yet another 16-year-old suspect, Jordon Benjamin, was released despite facing a manslaughter charge, only to be arrested for slashing a young woman.
Boyle released Benjamin without bail on that charge as well.
Boyle is a graduate of Fordham University and Fordham Law School who began his career as a city criminal court clerk in 1978.
He was named to the bench by Mayor David Dinkins in 1991 and held that post until 2002, when then-Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman named him an acting Supreme Court justice in the Bronx.
State court officials have repeatedly defended Boyle, saying he uses his discretion as permitted under the law and chiding critics for “cherry-picking” cases to criticize.
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