Jersey City, NJ – A former municipal court judge accused in a parking ticket fixing scandal two years ago has been cleared.
The charges against former Judge Irwin Rosen were dropped.
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Rosen was one of four Jersey City judges accused in 2007 of fixing parking tickets for themselves, their friends and family members.
Former Chief Judge Wanda Molina was indicted last year, and two other judges were accepted into a pretrial intervention program last week.
Rosen was charged with third-degree misconduct for allegedly dismissing (on the record) his own $42 parking ticket he received for parking in front his synagogue on a day the no-parking rule was suspended for a Jewish holiday. The charge carried a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
He was put on unpaid leave when the charges were announced. His attorney, Peter Willis, says Rosen plans to seek a return to the bench.
Don’t get it -if parking was suspended then why was he ticketed?
Are we in US or Russia? 5 years in prison for a $42 ticket?!! Crazy!! Its time to change our stupid justice system. You know when you misuse a box from the post office, made out od corrogated plastic, costs them approximately $5 you can get a maximimum penalty of up to a year imprison, and/or $2,000 penalty. Doesn’t our justice system stink?
There is fire hydrant by the front of the shul so maybe he was still too close to the hydrant even though the parking ban was not applicable that day.
that lawyer should loose some weight…it is not helathy.