Suspended Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Carlia Brady, whom authorities accused of hiding her fugitive boyfriend from police, has won dismissal of the charge of official misconduct, but her bid to dismiss the lesser charge of hindering law enforcement was denied.

Superior Court Judge Julie Marino of Somerset County granted Brady’s motion on March 4 to dismiss the second-degree official misconduct count but denied the motion to dismiss two counts of third-degree hindering. Marino ruled that the prosecution failed to demonstrate that Brady’s efforts to notify police of the whereabouts of her boyfriend, Jason Prontnicki, were inadequate. Prontnicki was wanted in connection with the robbery of a pharmacy.

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