Byline: Christopher Ringwald Staff writer
What used to pass for small-town compassion currently figures in a state commission's findings that a City Court judge be removed from the bench.
In defending himself against a finding that he illegally had jailed numerous defendants in in non- felony cases, City Court Judge Lawrence J. LaBelle testified that he was sometimes helping people with no place to go.
"Never in my life would I ever do anything with any punitive intentions," LaBelle, a City Court judge since 1970, said last week. But what he characterized as "judgment calls" or acts of mercy, the commission termed "a deliberate consistent disregard …
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