Golden v. County of Union

The Court holds today that adherence to agreed-upon procedures, to afford assistant prosecutors a hearing before firing them, impermissibly infringes on a prosecutor’s “unfettered right” to discharge from office an assistant prosecutor. Ante at 432, 749 A.2d at 848-49. I respectfully disagree primarily for the reasons stated by Judge Pressler in the opinion of the Appellate Division *436reported at 317 N.J.Super. 64, 721 A.2d 298 (1998). Specifically, I agree that

[m]ost significantly, the Prosecutor’s adherence to [the Manual’s] procedures confer and has the capacity to confer absolutely no…