In Re Sgro

This disciplinary matter is the corollary to In re Spitalnick, 63 N. J. 429 (1973). The facts and course of proceedings are fully detailed in that opinion. A brief summary will suffice here.

Respondent was the judge of the Hammohton Municipal Court. At the time in question, he had only served in that capacity about three months. A police officer made a com-' plaint in that court against a defendant for drunken driving. That defendant contacted Spitalnick, a judge of another Municipal Court of some years standing, who advised him to file an “explanation” with the court indicating that he was,…