A Westchester County town justice who struggled with police during a 2019 traffic stop that resulted in his pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated should be censured, a state courts watchdog announced on Monday.
In the late evening hours of April 21, 2019, Erik Jacobsen, a Bedford Town Court justice, got behind the wheel of his Mercedes after “consuming a number of alcoholic beverages” to drive from Yonkers to Mount Kisco, according to documents released by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
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