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North Brunswick Love is Light race to honor legacy of judge s slain son
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NORTH BRUNSWICK – Next month will mark the one-year anniversary of the day 20-year-old Daniel Anderl, the son of a federal judge, was fatally shot inside his family s home by a man disgruntled with his mother.
Shot in the heart, he died protecting his father, defense attorney Mark Anderl, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the July 19, 2020, attack by a man posing as a delivery person, and his mother, U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, who was in another part of the house.
The judge and her husband want to see their only child s legacy live on.
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WASHINGTON – Catholic University student Daniel Anderl, the son of U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas and attorney Mark Anderl, who was murdered last summer during an attack at his family s New Jersey home, was honored Saturday with a plaque on a university law school building.
A plaque reading, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life .: In loving memory of Daniel Mark Anderl 7/13/2000 - 7/19/2020 who offered his life as an act of love was unveiled outside the Columbus School of Law during a ceremony attended by Anderl s parents and friends.
Anderl, a 2018 graduate of St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, had plans to follow in his parents’ footsteps by becoming a lawyer.
Judges Targeted Fast Facts
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Here’s a look at notable cases in which US judges have been targets of lethal violence. Three federal judges were targeted and murdered from 1979 to present, Judge John Wood, Judge Richard Daronco and Judge Robert Vance, as well as several judges from lower courts.
US Marshals Service
The US Marshals Service is in charge of protecting federal judges.
The Marshals Service protects approximately 2,700 federal judges and approximately 30,300 other court officials at 866 court facilities throughout the nation.
2020 – 4,261 threats and inappropriate communications against the judiciary assessed by the Marshals.
2019 – 4,449 threats and inappropriate communications against the judiciary assessed by the Marshals.