Former Supreme Court Justice Stuart Namm, who lost his judicial post after exposing a pattern of police perjury in Suffolk homicide cases, prompting a blistering report from the state Commission of Investigation, died at a South Carolina assisted living facility of natural causes on Nov. 30.
Namm, who had beaten cancer three times, was 89.
Years before sweeping corruption investigations ensnared Suffolk’s district attorney and police chief, Namm shone a light on a county system in the 1980S in which prosecutors and police sometimes engaged in flagrant misconduct to earn convictions.
Namm’s role as a judicial whistleblower earned him respect from his peers but also powerful critics, including his own Democratic party, which in 1992 refused to renominate him for reelection, ending his 17-year career on the bench.
“He was a public servant who dedicated his professional life to doing the right thing,” said his oldest son, Gary Namm, 64, of Tampa. “And in doing the right thing, he paid the ultimate price.”
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Namm was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the oldest of three children to Paul Namm, a pipe fitter, and Lillian Kramer Namm, a homemaker active in her synagogue.
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