Letter: Judge Thompson Deserves Prison

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Dear Editor,

Revelations regarding the criminality of Richard B. Thompson, a lawyer who worked as a Municipal Judge in nine Monmouth County municipalities, resulting in a felony guilty plea to tampering with records are no shock to those familiar with his modus operandi in the courtroom. But Thompson should also be charged with Official Misconduct, and the Court Administrators who enabled this must also be convicted and incarcerated.

I had previously exposed Thompson for renting a law office from the father of Middletown Township prosecutor Gerald Massell (who also had an office in the small building), a conflict given Thompson was the jury-less decider of guilt in cases prosecuted by Massell.

In a medical cannabis case I faced before Thompson, he issued chilling threats to me via a local former mayor, and upheld an illegal search by police. In a separate matter, Thompson refused to find probable cause in a complaint I made against a mentally-ill man who made a false report against me, and the police officer who failed to conduct a background check on him, despite the man being on felony probation for making bomb threats. Thompson victimized me.

Thompson benefited from this scheme as it provided him with employment in nine towns, by offering them high revenue that only corruption could achieve.

Thompson must not receive pre-trial intervention, or probation for his crimes. Thompson must go to prison, receive the maximum sentence, and forfeit his pension. All cases in which he convicted defendants must be vacated, and fines refunded.

REV. DR. ERIC HAFNER
FORMER CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE
TOMS RIVER


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Photo: Activist and retired Penn State University Chemistry Professor Dr. Julian P. Heicklen holds up a sign that said “Judge is the Criminal”