阿尔文·K·赫勒斯坦，一位曼哈顿联邦法官，在法官任职近三十年间审理了涉及总统唐纳德·特朗普、前委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗以及9·11袭击事件的案件，已去世。享年92岁。
MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK — Alvin K. Hellerstein, a Manhattan federal judge who presided over matters involving President Donald Trump , former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the 9/11 attacks during nearly three decades on the bench, has died. He was 92.
据纽约南区联邦法院行政主管爱德华·弗里德兰称，赫勒斯坦周三去世。目前未立即提供死因。
Hellerstein died Wednesday, according to Edward Friedland, district executive for the Southern District of New York federal courts. No cause of death was immediately provided.
仅两周前，赫勒斯坦还主持了曼哈顿一场针对马杜罗的持续进行的恐怖毒品犯罪阴谋案听证会，马杜罗今年早些时候在一次突袭行动中被捕。
Only two weeks ago, Hellerstein presided over a Manhattan hearing in the ongoing narco-terrorism conspiracy prosecution of Maduro, who was captured earlier this year in a surprise raid.
民主党人比尔·克林顿总统于1998年任命赫勒斯坦担任联邦法官。他担任地区法官直至2011年转任资深法官。此前，赫勒斯坦曾在美国陆军军事法务团服役，并担任曼哈顿诉讼律师。
President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, appointed Hellerstein to the federal bench in 1998. He was a district judge until he moved to senior status in 2011. Before that, Hellerstein served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps and was a Manhattan litigator.
在2001年世界贸易中心恐怖袭击事件之后，赫勒斯坦主持了数十起错误死亡、人身伤害和财产损失诉讼——这一持续两十年的努力塑造了他在法官任上的遗产。
In the aftermath of the 2001 terror attack on the World Trade Center, Hellerstein presided over dozens of wrongful death, injury and property damage lawsuits — a two-decade-long effort that shaped his legacy on the bench.
该法官的一些前当事人在袭击中丧生，律师们表示，他对受害者及其家属表现出极大的同理心，在他的办公室与他们会面数小时，并拒绝了他认为过低的和解报价。
Some of the judge’s former clients died in the attack and, lawyers say, he showed great empathy to victims and their families, meeting with them for hours in his chambers and rejecting what he felt were low-ball settlement offers.
当赫勒斯坦于2008年终止一项迫使纽约市政府继续在从零点转移到史泰登岛垃圾填埋场的废墟中搜寻人类遗骸的努力时，其他人感到沮丧。
Others were dismayed when, in 2008, Hellerstein ended an effort to force New York City government to keep searching for human remains in debris moved from ground zero to a Staten Island landfill.
赫勒斯坦以其古怪的独立作风和法庭上的严格纪律而闻名，他在其他法官停止这一做法后，仍坚持让旁听者佩戴疫情时期口罩长达两年多。
Hellerstein, known for a quirky independent streak and strict discipline in his courtroom, insisted spectators wear pandemic-era masks for more than two years after other judges stopped the practice.
八月，在他的最后几项重要裁决之一中，赫勒斯坦再次驳回了特朗普抹杀其封口费定罪的努力，拒绝了总统将州法院案件移交联邦法院并以总统豁免权为由要求驳回的请求。
In August, in one of his last significant rulings, Hellerstein again spurned Trump’s effort to erase his hush money conviction , rejecting the president’s bid to move the state court case to federal court and have it dismissed on presidential immunity grounds.
这是赫勒斯坦第三次驳回特朗普移送案件的请求。第一次是在特朗普2023年3月被起诉之后；第二次是在特朗普2024年5月被定罪以及随后美国最高法院一项裁决之后，该裁决称总统和前总统因官方行为不得被起诉。
It was the third time Hellerstein denied Trump’s requests to move the case. The first time was after Trump’s March 2023 indictment; the second followed Trump’s May 2024 conviction and a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that presidents and former presidents cannot be prosecuted for official acts.
赫勒斯坦最新一项不利于特朗普的裁决是在上诉法院命令他重新考虑先前决定后作出的。美国第二巡回上诉法院裁定，赫勒斯坦未能考虑与总统请求“相关的重要问题”，属于错误。然而，上诉法院法官表示，他们“对赫勒斯坦应如何裁决不发表任何意见”。
Hellerstein’s latest ruling against Trump came after an appeals court ordered him to reconsider his prior decision. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Hellerstein erred by failing to consider “important issues relevant” to the president’s request . However, the appeals court judges said they “express no view” on how Hellerstein should rule.
2020年，赫勒斯坦下令释放特朗普疏远的前律师兼“清道夫”迈克尔·科恩，此前司法部撤销了科恩的居家监禁，以阻止他出版书籍或接受媒体采访。他裁定，政府的行为具有报复性，违反了第一修正案。
In 2020, Hellerstein ordered Trump’s estranged former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen released from prison after the Justice Department revoked his home confinement to thwart his efforts to publish a book or talk to the media. The government’s action, he ruled, was retaliatory and a First Amendment violation.
2015年，赫勒斯坦因下令一家纽约市有线电视公司向一名德州妇女支付229,500美元，因其向该妇女电话发送了153次自动语音电话而引起头条新闻。
In 2015, Hellerstein made headlines when he ordered a New York City cable company to pay a Texas woman $229,500 for flooding her phone with 153 robocalls.