Matter of Roberts

OPINION OF THE COURT

The State Commission on Judicial Conduct determined that Donald R. Roberts should be removed as Justice of the Malone Village Court in Franklin County, an elected office he has held since 1993. The Justice seeks this Court’s review of the Commission’s determination of misconduct findings, with a removal sanction.

We are satisfied, upon our plenary review of the record and circumstances, that the charges stemming from various conduct in 1994 are sustained by the evidence. Moreover, they qualify in the aggregate to the level and quality of egregiousness that merit the…