In re Wait

OPINION OF THE COURT

Petitioner, a Town Justice of the Town of Waverly, Franklin County, instituted this proceeding to review a determination of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct which found that he violated the Rules and Canons governing judicial conduct by presiding over cases involving relatives and that the appropriate sanction was removal from office. Petitioner asserts that the Commission improperly relied upon facts not in the record before it and that the sanction of removal was too harsh.

The complaint served upon petitioner contained six charges, each pertaining to a separate…