MATTER OF McGEE v. State Comm'n on Judicial Conduct

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The determination of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, directing that petitioner, a Justice of the Peru Town Court, Clinton County, be removed from office, should be accepted. A review of the record clearly establishes the propriety of the commission’s findings of fact and conclusions of law.

According to the credible testimony of various individuals, including a New York State trooper, petitioner, during the period from February, 1979 through January, 1981, routinely failed to advise defendants appearing before him of their constitutional and statutory…