By Michael O. Allen and Caroline Herzfeld, Record Staff Writers | Thursday, October 4, 1990
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State police have charged a 43-year-old Cliffside Park woman with making terroristic threats against an appellate court judge who is handling the appeal of her divorce case.
State police spokesman Danny Cosgrove said Judge James J. Petrella received two phone calls from Susan V. Waldman in his chamber in the Appellate Division of Superior Court in Hackensack Friday, threatening him with bodily harm.
Waldman was arrested at 10 p.m. Tuesday at her home at 250 Gorge St. She was released from the Bergen County Jail Wednesday after posting 10 percent of her $25,000 bail.
Waldman could be sentenced to five years in prison and fined up to $7,500 if she is convicted.
Waldman’s appeal of a Morris County Superior Court ruling in her divorce from Morristown dentist Herman Waldman was filed Oct. 24, 1989, and came before a three-judge panel headed by Petrella.
She said in phone calls to The Record this week that she filed charges of judicial misconduct against Petrella with John Sweeney, Governor Florio’s counsel. She claimed Petrella has been rubber-stamping all of her husband’s motions in the ongoing case while ignoring hers, and that Petrella was harassing her because of her charges against him.
Her former husband is a personal friend of Petrella and the two other judges hearing the case, Mrs. Waldman said in her calls to The Record.
Petrella and Herman Waldman could not be reached for comment.
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