A Newark Municipal Court judge has been censured for the prolonged jailing of a pro se litigant, though he avoided the suspension that state judicial ethics authorities had sought.

Judge Marvin Adames was censured by the Supreme Court on Thursday following what the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct previously called his “evident lack of appreciation for the necessary process attendant to every contempt charge” in jailing the litigant, who he had “detained … for 23 days without just cause and without the benefit of counsel whom he had relieved immediately prior to incarcerating her.”

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