Months ago a municipal court judge in Bergen County was cited for violating certain canons of professional responsibility for events involving a police sergeant working in the town where she sat as a judge. Within recent times, this judge recanted on her original response to these accusations and virtually admitted the facts at the core of the controversy.

Specifically, on an evening in May 2008 an investigator from the Attorney General's office visited the judge's home for purposes of serving a grand jury subpoena on the judge’s husband and law partner. The subpoena related to an investigation of certain council members in the judges’ hometown. Ostensibly, the judge and her husband, were upstairs at the time of the investigator’s visit.  The investigator was greeted at the door by the husband’s mother. At one point, the  investigator climbed the stairs of the judge's home yelled out the husband's name and asking him to come downstairs. When the husband was served with the subpoena the investigator left. Meanwhile, the judge who was still upstairs called 911 for assistance.  In route to the site, a sergeant of the police department intercepted the  investigator and determine his purpose in the neighborhood. When the sergeant and other police officers arrived at the judge's home the judge berated the sergeant for not doing his job and accused him of  mishandling his responsibilities and failing to provide her with sufficient protection.

In her original response to the ethic’s committee accusations the judge denied that she yelled at the police officer and attributed any intemperance at her home to her husband. She also said that the investigator never identified himself and virtually push his way upstairs.  It was these versions of the incident that were recanted by the judge.  The judge has since left the bench.