A village court justice from Rockland County should be censured for a drunken driving arrest in which he became combative with police and refused to take a breathalyzer test, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct said Tuesday. Thomas Newman Jr., an attorney who has been Sloatsburg Village Court justice since 1981, “engaged in conduct that undermines his effectiveness as a judge and brings the judiciary as a whole into disrepute,” the commission said.
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