In Re Mezzacca

This disciplinary proceeding stems from respondent’s conduct as an attorney before an administrative review board conducting a departmental hearing. Eespondent represented a sheriff’s officer employed in the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office against whom charges of misconduct had been filed by the sheriff after receiving a report that the officer had been involved in a shoplifting incident in a Korvette store. The sheriff appointed the undersheriff as hearing officer of a departmental review committee to conduct a hearing on the charges and make recommendations as to what disciplinary action,…