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: Bergen Judge Made Misogynist TikTok Videos In Chambers, In Bed: Complaint
A New Jersey criminal judge is accused of creating offensive videos in his chambers at the Bergen County courthouse in Hackensack, as well as partly undressed in his bed. Using a pseudonym," Superior Court Judge Gary N. Wilcox created 40 public TikTok videos, some containing profanity and graphic sexual terms for body parts, others with violent, misogynist and racist terms, a complaint against him alleges. In one video, Wilcox wears a “Beavis and Butt-Head” T-shirt while walking through the county courthouse to the sound of the Nas song "Get Down," which concerns a courtroom shooting and t…
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Camden Judge Reprimanded For Saying He Doesn't Know Family Law, Failing To Wear Judicial Robe
A Camden County judge was publicly reprimanded by the New Jersey Supreme Court for misconduct while temporarily working in family court. On Tuesday, April 11, a Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct said State Superior Court Judge Michael J. Kassel's behavior constituted a complete departure from ethical standards. Kassel, who usually works in Camden County’s civil division, was temporarily assigned to the family division in April 2021. The advisory committee's report included numerous comments from the judge professing his ignorance of family law, such as: "I’m not an idi…
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NJ Judge Inappropriately Touched Clerk After Sharing Drinks At His Beach House, Complaint Says
A municipal judge from Mercer County is accused of violating judicial conduct after a law clerk says he touched her thigh inappropriately, according to a complaint filed by a state advisory committee. Filed Monday, April 10, the complaint says Judge R. Douglas Hoffman “demeaned the judicial office" in drinking alcohol with a subordinate employee and touching her without her consent. Hoffman has 20 days to respond. After the judge and the woman, identified as L.W., became Facebook friends, Hoffman would comment on her Facebook photos, sometimes with sexual overtones, and invit…
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NJ Judge Who Called Men 'In Control' And Women Created 'On A Curve' Begins Unpaid Suspension
A New Jersey judge will be benched for a month beginning Wednesday for telling a domestic violence defendant that men are "in control" and that God created women "on a curve." The state Supreme Court suspended Municipal Court Judge Steven Brister for the month without pay for the way he told the man to consider women. “We get frustrated with the women human beings. Because we try to straighten out a creation ‘cause they was created with a curve," said Brister, a defense attorney who works as a part-time judge in East Orange and Newark, during a 2019 case. The judge later explained he was r…