Posted on 05/21/2007 2:35:00 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
NEWARK, N.J. -- A state panel on judicial conduct on Friday filed an ethics complaint against New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto, charging that he improperly allowed the "power and prestige" of his position to help his son in a dispute with another teen on their high school football team.
If the six other justices on the state's highest court substantiate the complaint, they could remove Rivera-Soto from the bench or impose a lesser penalty, including a public reprimand, censure or suspension.
Rivera-Soto, the first Hispanic on the state Supreme Court, denies any wrongdoing, said his lawyer, Bruce P. McMoran.
"He acted as a father would act, and we don't think he did anything wrong," McMoran said.
The complaint charged that Rivera-Soto violated a court rule barring conduct "that brings the judicial office into disrepute," and three aspects of the Canons of the Code of Judicial Conduct, including one that "requires judges to avoid lending the prestige of their office to advance the private interests of others."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
I did read the entire thread (from my cell phone, which you couldn’t know since you obviously didn’t read my post). I addressed the facts which you are either confused about, or feigning confusion about.
I suggest you read my first post, as well as the rest of the thread. You might also consider reading the article, other articles on the subject, and a few of Judge Rivera-Soto’s Supreme Court opinions. Then you might know almost as much as I on this subject, and you won’t have to make things up to support the liberals railroading an innocent judge.
And you know all about the workings of the legal system by virtue of your ability to ignore evidence and make up “facts” that fit your agenda.
Look, I wanted to bring this to the attention of FReepers so the facts could come out. If your only interest is in promoting corruption and framing conservative judges for ethics violations so they can be replaced with liberal judges, would you do so somewhere else? I know you want to derail the thread, but could you resist the temptation just this once?
It's a contact sport that's almost as tough as politics.
After a little work on the facts to remove the Asbury Park Press jihad slant, here is what happened:
• Judge Rivera-Soto’s (A Republican) son (a sophomore) had an ongoing problem with the captain of the football team (a senior) bullying him.
• The bully was reprimanded.
• The bullying continued.
• Big surprise - School officials did nothing. Why would they – It is the football team Captain after all.
• The bully head butted the younger boy and facts around this incident support an inference the older boy intended to injure or was reckless and intended to intimidate.
• The school (Foot ball coaches) declared the incident an accident, and refused to discipline the bully.
• When the school superintendent asked the father what his job was, Justice Rivera-Soto responded.
• Having gone all the way to the top at the school with no satisfaction, Justice Rivera-Soto filed a police report.
• Judge Rivera-Soto acted as he is permitted to do under victim’s rights statutes by discussing his son’s case with the court system.
• In doing so, He also told the judge and prosecutor (who both must have already known who he is) to treat the case as any other.
• He and his son appeared for trial, only to be told that the bully adjourned the case without notice.
• He says he gave his business card to the employee so she could contact him about any further adjournments.
I was here getting caught up myself!
Thanks frithguild.
I will add, now that I read you great summary, this was being reported on NJ101.5 as a parent suing the school just because the child got hurt in football. Slanted as if, my Johnny got hurt in a mean sport type reporting.
So again I’m wondering if this is being done to influence an action or case Rivera-Soto is involved in.
OMG!!! The victim spoke to court personnel!! And the Prosecutor! We can’t have a Prosecutor going into trial knowing the facts where the victim is a Republican and the defendant is the football team captain!!!
The Legislature finds and declares that crime victims and witnesses are entitled to the following rights:
a. To be treated with dignity and compassion by the criminal justice system;
b. To be informed about the criminal justice process;
c. To be free from intimidation;
d. To have inconveniences associated with participation in the criminal justice process minimized to the fullest extent possible;
e. To make at least one telephone call provided the call is reasonable in both length and location called;
f. To medical assistance if, in the judgment of the law enforcement agency, medical assistance appears necessary;
g. To be notified if presence in court is not needed;
h. To be informed about available remedies, financial assistance and social services;
i. To be compensated for their loss whenever possible;
j. To be provided a secure, but not necessarily separate, waiting area during court proceedings;
k. To be advised of case progress and final disposition;
l. To the prompt return of property when no longer needed as evidence;
m. To submit a written statement about the impact of the crime to a representative of the county prosecutor’s office which shall be considered prior to the prosecutor’s final decision concerning whether formal criminal charges will be filed;
n. To make, prior to sentencing, an in-person statement directly to the sentencing court concerning the impact of the crime.
This statement is to be made in addition to the statement permitted for inclusion in the presentence report by N.J.S.2C:44-6.
In any homicide prosecution the victim’s survivor may display directly to the sentencing court at the time of this statement a photograph of the victim taken before the homicide; and
o. No crime victim shall be required to pay the maintenance, support, rehabilitation or other costs arising from the imprisonment or commitment of a victimizer as a result of the crime.
N.J.S.A. 52:4B-36
Actually this was more than the local prosecutor. It went up to the county level.
In situations like this that apple usually doesn't fall far from the tree. The father of the Captain probably gives his son way too much red meat, to say the least. And sonny, who is his ticket to the big time can do no wrong.
So how would I feel? I can't put myself in the football father's shoes. I have no sympathy for those who trade on physical intimidation. None. They are Nazi wanabees.
Or the Trenchcoat Mafia.
Wrong. You fell into the MSM trap - they hide the facts among emotional appeals - just a little football incident and this Republican Judge is out of control. Look past the template man! The press is on a jihad here. THIS WAS A PATTERN OF MANY INCIDENTS.
Doesn't that say it all.
What fact did I make up? Show me the quote.
And try to be civil as you are only weakening your case.
Because of the Act's plain language, its broad remedial goal, and the prevalent nature of peer sexual harassment, we conclude that the LAD permits a cause of action against a school district for student-on-student harassment based on an individual's perceived sexual orientation if the school district's failure to reasonably address that harassment has the effect of denying to that student any of a school's “accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges.” See N.J.S.A. 10:5-12(f).
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We do not suggest, however, that isolated schoolyard insults or classroom taunts are actionable.
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For affirmance as modified/remandment-Chief Justice ZAZZALI and Justices LONG, LaVECCHIA, ALBIN, WALLACE, RIVERA-SOTO and HOENS-7.
L.W. ex rel. L.G. v. Toms River Regional Schools Bd. of Educ. 189 N.J. 381, *412, 915 A.2d 535, **553 (N.J.,February 21 2007)
Lynch is on the move. Why do you think he assigned this case to himself? He is on a witch hunt - that's why.
Why do you think he adjourned a case without telling a Supreme Court Justice? Maybe to goad the Justice into making a political mistake?
Are you beginning to see an undercurrent here?
Yes.
In two previous trials, in 1997 and 2001, Camden County juries have sentenced Nelson to die by lethal injection. Both of those verdicts were reversed by the New Jersey Supreme Court, which twice remanded the case back to the trial level.
As in the first two trials, First Assistant Camden County Prosecutor James P. Lynch will represent the state.
The charges stemmed from an incident in Haddon Heights, N.J., on April 20, 1995, in which Nelson wielded an assault rifle and shot and killed Investigator John McLaughlin of the Camden County Prosecutor's Office and Haddon Heights Patrolman John Norcross. John's brother, Richard Norcross, was critically wounded, but managed to escape.
http://www.camdencounty.com/government/offices/prosecutor/mr2003/05202003.html
http://nj1015.com/personalities/carton-rossi/cacp.htm
Coalition Against Corrupt Politicians (CACP)
Formal Complaint
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/pressrel/RS_Complaint_Final_Internet.pdf
Answer http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/pressrel/response.pdf
Why can't they identify the team captain-bully and aspiring union thug? What are his connections? Do you think the captain-thug was enlisted by his coach, on behalf of someone else? There's only one place in America where I could conceive the possibility that political corruption would involve the children of their intended target-- New Jersey.
>>>>There’s only one place in America where I could conceive the possibility that political corruption would involve the children of their intended target— New Jersey.
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