Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2010 5:32AM
Ocean County Judge Reprimanded For Remarks To Defendants
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The New Jersey Supreme Court's disciplinary
committee has publicly reprimanded an Ocean County Superior Court
judge for remarks deemed inappropriate during two sentencings.
Judge James N. Citta was reprimanded for disparaging a
Mexican immigrant's inability to speak English after six years in
the United States and for comparing a man being sentenced for
attempted murder to O.J. Simpson.
The committee's report, issued Tuesday, found the remarks
inappropriate and excessive despite Citta's reputation as an
effective and hard-working judge.
Citta declined comment on the reprimand, but in a letter to the
court he wrote that the stress of presiding over emotionally
charged criminal trials had sometimes caused him to "say things
better left unsaid."
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