The Dutchess County Courthouse in Poughkeepsie houses the County Court, where felony and select civil cases are heard. (Courtesy of Setty & Associates) The race for Dutchess County Court is entering its final stretch. The outcome will not only determine who presides over some of the county’s most serious criminal cases, but whether the bench remains politically split or becomes, for the first time in county history, an all-female, all-Democratic court. Democrat Kara Gerry, the criminal unit bureau chief at the Dutchess County Public Defender’s Office, is challenging Judge Edward T. “Ned” McLoughlin, the Republican incumbent who has served on...

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