{"id":712,"date":"2006-02-17T07:18:56","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/scofflaws.html"},"modified":"2006-02-17T07:18:56","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:18:56","slug":"scofflaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/scofflaws.html","title":{"rendered":"Scofflaws!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless I’m missing something here, this former parking ticket judge seems sort of smart<\/a>, is all:<\/p>\n

A former judge at the city’s Parking Violations Bureau who thought he could beat the system got his law license suspended yesterday for trying to evade $12,000 in parking tickets.<\/p>\n

Attorney Glenn Caldwell was barred from practice for the next three years by a state appeals court that found his behavior “appalling.”<\/p>\n

The panel of judges said Caldwell, 56, must pay the price for attempting to beat the tickets by using an insider’s knowledge of the system.<\/p>\n

“This was not an instance of a mere ‘error of judgment,'” the panel said. “But rather persistent misconduct by a former judicial officer.”<\/p>\n

Caldwell, who presided over thousands of cases as an administrative law judge between 1991 to 1995, amassed 167 of his own parking tickets after he left.<\/p>\n

Often, he parked illegally near courthouses — where he was representing other scofflaws as a ticket broker.<\/p>\n

According to a board investigation, Caldwell kept his expired administrative law judge identification card on the dashboard, “ostensibly to discourage a traffic agent from issuing a summons to the vehicle,” the court found.<\/p>\n

He also slyly ordered vanity license plates for two family cars, “intentionally requesting a combination of letters and numbers that he knew would provide him with a technical defense to any summons issued to those cars.”<\/p>\n

Caldwell’s plate numbers, 4GZ-Z50 and Y50-V26, were often confused for regular plates by ticket agents and cops, a mistake that could be a basis for voiding a summons.<\/p>\n

“That [Caldwell] . . . would utilize his expired identification card and his knowledge of the inner workings of the PVB adjudicatory process for his own personal gain, is simply appalling,” the court added.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mean, the vanity plate thing is just brilliant, and the old ID card — well, what if he was just absent minded and forgot to take it off of his dashboard? But to be barred from practicing law because you’re crafty . . . isn’t that kind of the point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless I’m missing something here, this former parking ticket judge seems sort of smart, is all: A former judge at the city’s Parking Violations Bureau who thought he could beat the system got his law license suspended yesterday for trying to evade $12,000 in parking tickets. Attorney Glenn Caldwell was barred from practice for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}