The state Supreme Court has dismissed a complaint that a state senator contacted Essex County’s top judge to help push Paula Dow’s nomination for the bench last year, finding no evidence of judicial or attorney misconduct.
The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct concluded that Sen. Kevin O’Toole’s call to Assignment Judge Patricia Costello was “consistent with the past and present practice of the three branches of government in respect of judicial reappointments.”
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