Sandy
November 14th, 2009, 07:37 AM
In today's Jersey Journal, the newspaper has reported the state ethics committee wants Mayor Healy's law license suspended because of his disorderly persons conviction, see article below:
ETHICS SLAP?
Attorney panel wants Healy disciplined
Saturday, November 14, 2009
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
The state Office of Attorney Ethics has recommended that Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy's law license be suspended or that he face other disciplinary action because of his disorderly persons convictions after a 2006 scuffle with Bradley Beach cops, officials confirmed last night.
The office, an arm of the New Jersey Supreme Court, filed the two-paragraph recommendation with the state Disciplinary Review Board on Nov. 2.
"At the time and place selected by the board, application will be made for recommendations to the Supreme Court of New Jersey that you be either censured or suspended for a three-month period," the Notice of Motion for Final Discipline states.
Healy was convicted by a Monmouth County presiding judge sitting in Bradley Beach Municipal Court on the disorderly persons charges of resisting arrest and obstruction of the administration of law.
In the wee hours of June 17, 2006, Healy intervened in a dispute between a couple outside a bar that was owned at the time by his sister and brother-in-law.
The two police officers who responded testified at the trial that Healy ignored several requests to step aside so they could interview the young woman and at one point assumed a "boxing stance" to fight one of the officers.
Both officers characterized Healy - who acknowledged having consumed five to seven 10-ounce beers that evening - as "clearly intoxicated." To arrest him, they testified, they had to wrestle him to the ground and pepper-spray him in both eyes.
Healy, a former municipal court judge, contended that the officers used excessive force.
A spokeswoman for the state judiciary said the Disciplinary Review Board will now consider the recommendation.
Healy could not be reached for comment last night.
ETHICS SLAP?
Attorney panel wants Healy disciplined
Saturday, November 14, 2009
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
The state Office of Attorney Ethics has recommended that Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy's law license be suspended or that he face other disciplinary action because of his disorderly persons convictions after a 2006 scuffle with Bradley Beach cops, officials confirmed last night.
The office, an arm of the New Jersey Supreme Court, filed the two-paragraph recommendation with the state Disciplinary Review Board on Nov. 2.
"At the time and place selected by the board, application will be made for recommendations to the Supreme Court of New Jersey that you be either censured or suspended for a three-month period," the Notice of Motion for Final Discipline states.
Healy was convicted by a Monmouth County presiding judge sitting in Bradley Beach Municipal Court on the disorderly persons charges of resisting arrest and obstruction of the administration of law.
In the wee hours of June 17, 2006, Healy intervened in a dispute between a couple outside a bar that was owned at the time by his sister and brother-in-law.
The two police officers who responded testified at the trial that Healy ignored several requests to step aside so they could interview the young woman and at one point assumed a "boxing stance" to fight one of the officers.
Both officers characterized Healy - who acknowledged having consumed five to seven 10-ounce beers that evening - as "clearly intoxicated." To arrest him, they testified, they had to wrestle him to the ground and pepper-spray him in both eyes.
Healy, a former municipal court judge, contended that the officers used excessive force.
A spokeswoman for the state judiciary said the Disciplinary Review Board will now consider the recommendation.
Healy could not be reached for comment last night.