Outgoing Hudson Assignment Judge Peter Bariso reflects on 16 years on the bench
Hudson County View By John Heinis/Hudson County View Bariso, the assignment judge since February 2012, is calling it career on April 1st and will be succeeded by fellow Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Jablonski. While Bariso, first appointed by then-Acting Gov. Richard Codey in 2005, has heard hundreds, possible over a thousand cases, in his long career there are two in particular that left a lasting impact: a jury trial involving the Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) and the state vs. JLG. “The JONAH case involved a lot of research regarding the issue of same sex...