Domenick Luciano Gabrielli (December 13, 1912, in Rochester,

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– March 25, 1994, in

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) was an American lawyer, politician and judge.

Life

He was the son of Italian immigrants Rocco Gabrielli and Veronica (Battisti) Gabrielli. He graduated from

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, and in 1936 from

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. He was admitted to the bar in 1937. In 1938, he married Dorothy Hedges, and they had two children. In 1939, he became Corporation Counsel of

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. In 1942, he was commissioned an

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in the

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. During

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, he served in North Africa,

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and

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, and took part in the landing at

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, known as

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, in September 1943. After the war, he resumed his office as Corporation Counsel of Bath and counsel to other cities and villages of the area. In 1953, he was first appointed and then elected District Attorney of Steuben County. From 1957 to 1961, he was a Judge of the Steuben County Court and the Children's Court. In 1961, he was appointed to the

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(7th District) to fill a vacancy, and elected in November 1961 to a fourteen-year term. He sat on the Appellate Division from 1968 on. In

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, he was elected on the Republican and

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tickets to the

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. In 1978, his was one of the seven names on the list submitted to Governor Hugh L. Carey from which to choose the new

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, but Lawrence H. Cooke was selected. He retired from the Court of Appeals at the end of 1982 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law at Rochester. In 1983, he was appointed by Governor

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as Chairman of the Judicial Screening Committee which recommends candidates for judicial appointments. He died at the Villa Mary Immaculate Nursing Home in Albany after struggling a month with

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Sources

''The History of the New York Court of Appeals, 1932-2003''
by Bernard S. Meyer, Burton C. Agata & Seth H. Agata (pages 28) ives first name "Dominick"br>
Court of Appeals judges
''Domenick Gabrielli, 81, Ex-Judge On New York's Top Court, Is Dead''
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