Michael V. Coccoma

LOCAL JURIST HELD STATEWIDE SWAY Sure-Footedly, Coccoma Moved Up Legal Ladder By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – While at Albany Law School, Judge Michael V. Coccoma remembered hearing stories from professor Francis Anderson about trying cases “out in the country” in the late 1940s and early ‘50s. “He practiced law in Cooperstown,” said Coccoma. “Years later, when I was a county judge, he stopped into my courtroom and waited in the back for a break. We had a…