Judge Draws Fire But Keeps Job — Linden Municipal Court Judge Louis DiLeo‘s conviction of two defendants without a prosecutor or public defender present was a boondoggle that even the county prosecutor wants reversed.
In a Feb. 8 letter to Superior Court Judge Scott Moynihan, who is hearing the defendants’ appeal, Assistant Union County Prosecutor Sara Liebman said her office agreed that due process rights were violated when DiLeo tried brothers Wendell and Anthony Kirkland on burglary and drug charges last May. The municipal prosecutor, state Sen. Nicholas Scutari, was inexplicably absent. DiLeo questioned the state’s sole witness, a Linden police officer, on direct and allowed the cop to cross-examine the defendants.
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