--- title: "John B. Latella Jr. | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/john-b-latella-jr-14861" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-08" --- # John B. Latella Jr. Queens County Supreme Court · Acting Justice ## Profile - Court: Queens County Supreme Court - State: New York - Role: Acting Justice - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-06-30 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - Acting Justice, New York Supreme Court, Queens County, New York, NY, 2013-present - Current: Acting Justice, Queens County Supreme Court, Department Part K‐9, Room 516, appointed in 2013 by former New York State Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti - Judge, Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York, NY, 2016-2025 - Previous: Judge, Criminal Court of the City of New York, appointed in 1987 by Mayor Ed Koch, and reappointed by Mayor Rudy Giuliani (1996), Mayor Michael Bloomberg (2006), and Mayor Bill de Blasio (2016) - Judge, Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York, NY, 2006-2015 - Judge, Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York, NY, 1996-2005 - Judge, Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York, NY, 1987-1995 - Over 38 years of judicial service in New York’s criminal justice system - Also held clerkships with a Federal Court of Appeals judge and a Federal District Court judge - Acting Justice of the Queens County Supreme Court, Criminal Term in New York’s 11th Judicial District, and a long‐time judge in the Criminal Court of the City of New York ### Education - Princeton University — B.A. - Yale School of Law — J.D. ### Additional information ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### recording and photography Scope: statewide New York statewide rules require permission before photographing, filming, videotaping, audiotaping, broadcasting, or telecasting in court facilities, including courtrooms. Evidence excerpt: Taking photographs, films or videotapes, or audiotaping, broadcasting or telecasting, in a courthouse including any courtroom, office or hallway thereof, at any time or on any occasion, whether or not the court is in session, is forbidden, unless permission of the Chief Administrator of the Courts or a designee of the Chief Administrator is first obtained [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ### evidence presentation control Scope: statewide The official Guide to New York Evidence identifies court control over presentation of evidence as a statewide evidence topic; counsel should expect the assigned judge to control the mode and order of proof. Evidence excerpt: 1.07. COURT CONTROL OVER PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE [Guide to New York Evidence: Article 1, General Provisions and Court's Role](https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/evidence/1-GENERAL/1-generalprovisions.shtml) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/14861/john-b-latella-jr/) - [Official roster](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/14861/john-b-latella-jr/) - [New York Supreme Court, Queens County current judicial profile](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/14861/john-b-latella-jr/) - [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true) - [Guide to New York Evidence: Article 1, General Provisions and Court's Role](https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/evidence/1-GENERAL/1-generalprovisions.shtml) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/14861/john-b-latella-jr/) - [John Latella - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/John_Latella) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/john-b-latella-jr-14861", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/john-b-latella-jr-14861", "name": "John B. 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Collected 2026-10-27. - [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-99a7824bb8e009643f842c03) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim. Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true). Collected 2026-07-26. - [Part 29: Electronic Recording and Audio-Visual Coverage in Court Facilities and of Court Proceedings](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-34fe480ab82f22fa3c31d257) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim. Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://www.nycourts.gov/rules/part-29-electronic-recording-and-audio-visual-coverage-court-facilities-and-court-proceedings?from_node=15921&topic=386&wrapped=true). Collected 2026-07-26.