Mum Has To Be the Word — A Monmouth County judge dismissed an entire grand jury panel on Wednesday, finding a grand juror’s letter to the judge complaining of prosecutorial misconduct tainted the panel’s ability to properly do its job.
The letter, which The Press of Asbury Park wrote about last year, said an indictment against Lorie Hentges, a nurse at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, alleging that she killed a 72-year-old patient by injecting him with a paralytic drug, was a “miscarriage of justice.” Judge Francis DeStefano dismissed the indictment in October because of prosecutorial misconduct.
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