Municipal Court Judge Louis DiLeo’s defense for conducting a criminal trial without a prosecutor or a public defender is the law of necessity.
Responding to ethics charges lodged by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, DiLeo says the criminal cases he tried on May 12, 2010, “were considered old complaints on the docket of the Linden Municipal Court” and their age “required that they be adjudicated in a reasonably expeditious manner.”
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