Wild Bill’s Last Stand — During his time as Mercer County Executive in the 1980s, Bill Mathesius was known as “Wild Bill” for his tendency to shoot (verbally) from the hip. In his seven years as a Superior Court judge he was often just as bellicose, as his criticism of judges and jurors, along with other comments while in robes, got him suspended for 30 days in 2006.
But within days of his term’s end in January 2009, he managed to get off one last round. Reversed in State v. Lane, an armed robbery case, for denying a motion to suppress a rifle discovered in a warrantless search, Mathesius responded to the appeals court’s remand with a 36-page opinion that Appellate Division Judges Clarkson Fisher Jr. and Douglas Fasciale said only partly explained his reasoning.
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