The complaint comes almost two months after the judge was reinstated following a nearly five-year suspension.
After five years, Superior Court Judge Carlia M. Brady is free and clear of criminal charges and back on the bench in Middlesex County.
But the state Supreme Court's Judicial Conduct Committee says she still needs to be held accountable for hindering the efforts of Woodbridge police to arrest her boyfriend on a robbery charge.
In a complaint filed against Brady last week, the committee said she "demonstrated an inability to conform her conduct to the high standards of conduct expected of judges and impugned the integrity of the Judiciary." The committee has also accused Brady of using her status as a judge to advance her personal interests.
In a statement to NJ Advance Media on Monday, Brady's attorney Timothy R. Smith said he and his client were confident "that when the esteemed members of the committee become fully versed in the salient facts, Judge Brady will resume her status as a rising and shining star within the New Jersey judiciary."
"She is honest to a fault and lives her life by one creed -- always do the right thing," Brady said. "The circumstances surrounding her unlawful arrest should enhance, not diminish, her value as a judge in that she can now personally relate to the plight of the oppressed.
"She is a model of integrity and exactly the type of person who should be serving in a position of public trust in this state."
Brady, the state's first Superior Court judge of Filipino descent, was arrested in 2013 after police said she failed to notify officers that her boyfriend Jason Prontnicki -- who was wanted for the robbery of a pharmacy in Old Bridge -- was in her home.
Woodbridge police said Brady had originally reported her car missing on June 10, 2013, after her boyfriend borrowed it and loaned it to another person without her permission. She also passed up repeated opportunities to inform police when Prontnicki returned twice her home, officials said.
A grand jury in Somerset County -- where the case was transferred to avoid a conflict of interest -- indicted Brady in 2015 on charges official misconduct and hindering, but the former of which was later dismissed by a state appeals court.
After a separate appeals court ruling found Prontnicki couldn't be forced to testify against Brady and thus incriminate himself, the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office in March dropped the two remaining hindering charges against her.
Brady, who had been suspended following her arrest, was reinstated less than a week later.
Prontnicki is serving a 10-year state prison sentence after being convicted of the robbery.
A hearing on the complaint has not yet been announced.
Thomas Moriarty may be reached at tmoriarty@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ThomasDMoriarty.
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