Matter of Gibbons

OPINION OF THE COURT

Petitioner, a Justice of the Glenville Town Court, Schenectady County, seeks review of a determination of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct sustaining one charge of misconduct and imposing the sanction of removal from office (see NY Const, art VI, § 22; Judiciary Law § 44). The charge alleges that after petitioner signed a search warrant authorizing investigators to search the premises of Capitaland Motors for environmental violations, he phoned the company’s attorney and informed him of the impending search.

At an evidentiary hearing before a Referee, petitioner…