Kurt Mausert
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Kurt Mausert (born 1957) is an American lawyer. He maintains his law office in downtown Saratoga Springs.
Mausert began his career as a prosecutor for the City Prosecutor's office in Concord, NH in 1987. In the mid-1990s, he also served as a Special Prosecutor in Warren County, NY. He is a former Town Court Judge having served via appointment by the Board of the Town of Saratoga.[citation needed]
As a practitioner of Vedic philosophy, Mausert served as president for Care for Vrindavan for more than twelve years.[1] This charity supports in part Food for Life Vrindavan four schools and some social development programs for women, clean water projects, and vegetarian food distribution, reforestation efforts and medical services.[2]
Mausert was born in Watertown, New York, in 1957 to John Mausert and Loretta Mausert.[1] Kurt graduated from Mohonasen High School in 1975 and attended college in Albany and UCLA in Los Angeles.[1] After serving as a prosecutor in Concord, New Hampshire, he returned home to Upstate New York in 1988.[1] Mausert was admitted to the New York Bar in 1989 when he started his own law practice. He also lived in practiced in Reno, Nevada, from May 1992 to December 1994.
He has been practicing in Saratoga Springs since 1989, covering Upstate New York areas.[3][4][5][6]
In 1991 Mausert successfully moved for the Queensbury, New York, Town Court Judge (Hon. Michael Muller), to have county prosecutor William Montgomery remove a flag pin he was wearing in court, arguing that the wearing of the flag may prejudice the jury. New York State Supreme Court Justice John Dier overruled the decision of Judge Muller. (Justice Dier was later admonished by the State's Commission on Judicial Conduct for unethical conduct in his handling of the case.)[7][8] That ruling, however, was in turn overturned unanimously by the New York State Appellate Division, 3rd Dept., (later affirmed by the highest court, the Court of Appeals), thus validating the position of Mausert in regard of wearing the flag pin by prosecution.[9][10][11]
Involvement in ISKCON[edit]
Mausert was introduced to the Bhagavad Gita and Bhagavata Purana at the age of 13 by his eldest brother, Aksobhya dasa.[12] At the age of 20 he became a monk and joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in New York City.[13] In January 1979, he accepted Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, one of the first disciples of the founder-acarya of ISKCON, as his diksa guru. At the initiation in 1979 he was given the name Kirtan Rasa Dasa.[13]
After the death of his brother Aksobhya dasa in February 1979, he learned his system of indexing books and went to work for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust charity in Los Angeles.[13] dasa was based in Honolulu when he was killed February 22, 1979, an event that inspired Mausert to become a lifelong gun owner https://www.range365.com/video-shows-breadth-gun-ownership#page-2.[4] At the BBT, Mausert wrote indexes for translations of the Isopansad, the Brahma Samhita, the Bhagavad Gita, volumes of the Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita's biography and various other books.[citation needed] Mausert was given brahminical initiation in July 1980 by his spiritual master, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. While in law school, he continued to edit indexes for the BBT.[14]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Mausert for Family Court (Campaign Information Page)". mausertforfamilycourt.com. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009. Retrieved 28 June 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Humanitarian Pursuits and Volunteer Work". Archived from the original on January 15, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ lawyersaratoga.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Hill, Brother seeks belated justice in 1979 fatal stabbing in isles 2006/08/13 Associated Press.
- ↑ "Officer assault charges tossed", The Saratogian, May 20, 2009.]
- ↑ "Biker: DMV stole my motorcycle". poststar.com. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
- ↑ "The Daily Gazette: Prosecutor in Flap Over Flag Pinned to Lapel". Associated Press. 18 March 1991. p. b4.
- ↑ "Dier 2". webcache.googleusercontent.com. Archived from the original on August 26, 2003. Retrieved 28 June 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ This event was covered in New York Times February 14, 1992.
- ↑ Michael Welch, Flag burning: moral panic and the criminalization of protest, p.91, Transaction Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0-202-30652-6 Search this book on
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- ↑ Robert Justin Goldstein, Burning the Flag: The Great 1989-1990 American Flag Desecration Controversy, Kent State University Press, 1998. p. 355.
- ↑ "Aksobhya dasa". vaisnavascare.com. Archived from the original on August 30, 2009. Retrieved 28 June 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "Yoga Mandali of Saratoga Springs: Instructors bio". yogasaratoga.com. Archived from the original on March 27, 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Yoga Mandali Instructors Biography". Archived from the original on March 27, 2010. Retrieved June 19, 2010. Unknown parameter
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