MATTER OF BAILEY


67 N.Y.2d 61 (1986)

In the Matter of Ronald V. Bailey, a Justice of the Keeseville Village Court, Petitioner. State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Roche for petitioner.

Jean M. Savanyu and Gerald Stern for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur in Per Curiam opinion; Judge ALEXANDER taking no part.


Per 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...

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