Legal Opinion
Matter of Watson
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 10, 2003PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
The Commission on Judicial Conduct determined that petitioner, a City Court judge, should be removed from office (see NY Const, art VI, § 22; Judiciary Law § 44), sustaining one charge of misconduct. Upon our plenary review of the facts and circumstances of this case, we find petitioner has engaged in misconduct warranting censure.
In 1999, petitioner took a leave of absence from his employment as an assistant district attorney in the Niagara County District Attorney’s office to run as a candidate for a Lockport City Court judgeship. Petitioner had two opponents in the…
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