The New Jersey Supreme Court has imposed a censure on an attorney who agreed to represent two children from Honduras on their asylum application, but then failed to show up at a hearing to remove them from the country.

Nelson Gonzalez, a solo practitioner in Dover, accepted $4,000 in 2010 to represent the boys, ages 8 and 9, who are cousins.

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