Legal Opinion
In re Bailey
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 19, 1986PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
A judge may be removed from office for misconduct occurring while he held a different judicial office, notwithstanding that his prior misconduct was known to the voters who elected him to the judicial position from which removal is now sought.
From January 1971 through 1981, petitioner served as a Justice of the Chesterfield Town Court, Essex County. During 1980, in order to increase the number of deer his hunting party could kill beyond the legal limit, he engaged in a scheme to obtain hunting licenses in the names of persons he knew would not use them, falsely certifying…
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- Abare v. HatchAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1964
- In re Proceedings against Suffolk County District Court Judge SarisohnAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1966
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