Metro

Gaveling away at the judge

A fed-up Mayor Bloomberg yesterday took another swipe at the Brooklyn judge who released ex-con Lamont Pride without bail a month before he allegedly murdered Officer Peter Figoski — as the judge played hooky for a second straight day.

“We have this turnstile justice now,” Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show about Judge Evelyn Laporte, who nixed a prosecutor’s request for $2,500 bail when Pride was busted on drug charges in November — even though there was a North Carolina warrant for his arrest for a shooting there.

“I think the judge could have done more,’’ Bloomberg railed.

“There are plenty of people who defend her and say, given the realities that we don’t have enough facilities and judges, they have to move their calendar along, they don’t have the time to give to each individual that comes before them.

“I would argue in this case there were probably enough warning signs that she should have said to the clerk, ‘Call just to make sure [whether Pride should be held],’ ” Bloomberg said.

Laporte took a second day off yesterday, letting another judge handle her Criminal Court docket.

Defense lawyer Arthur Aidala, who knows Laporte from the courtroom, defended her decision to release Pride without bail.

It was “absolutely reasonable under the circumstances,” which include the fact that Pride was not holding any drugs during his Nov. 3 arrest, Aidala said.