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Article: Panel: justice's behavior improper: N.J. Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto intervened in his son's dispute.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
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- July 12, 2007
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Byline: Elisa Ung
Jul. 12--TRENTON -- A judiciary ethics panel yesterday found that Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto engaged in judicial misconduct and recommended that he be censured for improperly using his office in a dispute involving his son.
Rivera-Soto "engaged in a course of conduct that created the risk that the prestige and power of his judicial office might influence and advance a private matter," wrote retired Supreme Court Justice Alan B. Handler, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct. "Such conduct further engendered an appearance of impropriety."
Rivera-Soto's fellow justices will now make the final ...