"The number and content of the media reports in the Cordero case make it plain that a reasonable person should know that the dissemination of such comments has a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding," Daniel Arshack, a Manhattan lawyer who is secretary of the complaint center, wrote in the seven-page grievance letter. The grievance was the first filed since the complaint center was formed last year.

The group also complained about two other high profile cases in which Pirro made prejudicial comments to the media. Pirro allegedly has a pattern of releasing information to the media that would be inadmissible in a trial, presumably to taint the pool of jurors who may participate in the trial.

The defense lawyers' group complaint comes just a few weeks after Pace Law professor Bennett Gershman, a frequent critic of Pirro, also cited the Cordero case in his own complaint letter to the judicial committee in mid-February.

Pirro is reportedly considering a run for the office of state attorney general in 2006. TalkLeft's take on Pirro is here.