Florence Schreiber Powers

If you’re home with a snow day, go back and read about New Jersey’s Best Feud Ever, the story of a State Senator who planted drugs in the car of a rival Assemblyman from his county.

Don’t miss the legend of Silvio Failla, the Hudson County Assemblyman who was robbed and murdered by a prostitute he picked up at a Neptune bar.

Remember Evelyn Williams? She was an Assemblywoman for about one week in 2005 before she was arrested for shoplifting and forced to resign.

And reminiscences of bizarre New Jersey stories is never complete without mentioning Judge Florence Schreiber Powers, who stole two $29 watches from T.J. Maxx and blamed it on an “ungodly vaginal itch.”

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When New Jersey Judges get in trouble, their colleagues may tend to go a little easy on them. Superior Court Judge Rosemarie Williams, arrested from drunk driving in 2006, received the minimum sentence yesterday from Judge John Sweeney, a $631 fine and loss of her license for seven months. Five years ago, Williams was suspended from the bench for three months after a fight with her then-boyfriend. She claimed that she was suffering from battered woman's syndrome.

In March 1991, Administrative Law Judge Florence Schreiber Powers was convicted of shoplifting a pair of $29 watches from T.J. Maxx in Lawrenceville. Powers, the daughter of retired state Supreme Court Justice Sidney Schreiber, admitted that she stole the two watches but claimed diminished mental capacity. A psychologist who testified at her trail outlined nineteen different stresses, including an "ungodly" vaginal itch.

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George Korpita, who served as a Municipal Court Judge in Rockaway, Dover and Victory Gardens, has been blocked from ever serving in public office again after attempting to use is official position to avoid an arrest in a 2007 drunken driving incident and another one last week in Sparta.  Last week, Livingston Municipal Court Judge Robert Jones was arrested for driving drunk in Parsippany.

New Jersey doesn’t always take a hard line on DWI cases when they involve public officials.

Robert Clifford pled guilty to DWI in 1989 while he was still serving as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court He was arrested again for DWI in 2000 when his vehicle struck a small bridge in his hometown, Bernards. Because Clifford's earlier conviction was more than ten years ago, the law allowed him to be viewed as a first-time offender. According to the Star-Ledger, "five state judges have been sanctioned by the Supreme Court following drunken driving convictions. Three were publicly reprimanded, one was censured and one was suspended for 60 days after he was convicted of a second driving-while-intoxicated charge. Read More >

If you’re home with a snow day, go back and read about New Jersey’s Best Feud Ever, the story of a State Senator who planted drugs in the car of a rival Assemblyman from his county.

Don’t miss the legend of Silvio Failla, the Hudson County Assemblyman who was robbed and murdered by a prostitute he picked up at a Neptune bar.

Remember Evelyn Williams? She was an Assemblywoman for about one week in 2005 before she was arrested for shoplifting and forced to resign.

And reminiscences of bizarre New Jersey stories is never complete without mentioning Judge Florence Schreiber Powers, who stole two $29 watches from T.J. Maxx and blamed it on an “ungodly vaginal itch.”

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In February 1990, the New Jersey Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Associate Justice Robert Clifford, who was convicted of drunk driving. The court said that ''a public reprimand is essential both to vindicate the interests of the judiciary and to maintain the public's confidence in it.''

Four months earlier, Clifford was stopped for driving while intoxicated in Princeton Borough. He refused a Breathalyzer test and was taken to the local police station. Later, he pleaded guilty and lost his license for one year.

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When New Jersey Judges get in trouble, their colleagues may tend to go a little easy on them. Superior Court Judge Rosemarie Williams, arrested from drunk driving in December, received the minimum sentence yesterday from Judge John Sweeney, a $631 fine and loss of her license for seven months. Five years ago, Williams was suspended from the bench for three months after a fight with her then-boyfriend. She claimed that she was suffering from battered woman's syndrome.

Administrative Law Judge Florence Schreiber Powers was convicted of shoplifting a pair of $29 watches from T.J. Maxx in Lawrenceville. Powers, the daughter of retired state Supreme Court Justice Sidney Schreiber, admitted that she stole the two watches but claimed diminished mental capacity. A psychologist who testified at her trail outlined nineteen different stresses, including an "ungodly" vaginal itch.

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