NJ judge scolded for mocking defendant's English

March 9, 2010

The Associated Press

TRENTON, N.J. -- The New Jersey Supreme Court's disciplinary committee has publicly reprimanded a lower-court judge who belittled an immigrant defendant's poor English skills and compared another defendant to O.J Simpson.

Ocean County Superior Court Judge James N. Citta (SIT'-uh) made the remarks during two sentencings. He disparaged a Mexican immigrant's inability to speak English after six years in the United States and compared a man being sentenced for attempted murder to Simpson, who famously was acquitted in 1995 of killing his ex-wife and her friend.

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