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2 views of a New Jersey justice: Friends see a principled man and devoted father. An ethics panel sees someone trying to use his title on a son's behalf.
Byline: Elisa Ung
May 28--Friends call New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto a principled man and devoted father who doggedly defends his family.
But a recent state ethics complaint -- only the second in the recent history of the state high court -- paints a picture of Rivera-Soto as a pompous justice waving his powerful business card to help his teenage son in a dispute with a high school football teammate.
Rivera-Soto, 53, has never been accused of being meek. A veteran casino attorney who had never been a judge before he was a surprise pick to become the high court's first Hispanic justice in 2004, Rivera-Soto was known in Haddonfield for his dramatic defense of a middle school principal fighting to stay in the district, thundering in a 2001 school board meeting as though it were a landmark court case.
This month, a state panel took Rivera-Soto to task for improperly using his title to advocate for his son, Christian, in a dispute with the captain of the Haddonfield Memorial High School football team.
The ethics filing said that, after Christian was bullied and the case spiraled into the courts, Rivera-Soto asked a court employee whether she knew who he was, handed out business ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, 2 views of a New Jersey justice: Friends see a principled man and...