MATTER OF WAIT


67 N.Y.2d 15 (1986)

In the Matter of Almon L. Wait, a Justice of the Waverly Town Court, Petitioner. State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 11, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald T. Kinsella for petitioner.

Robert Tembeckjian, Gerald Stern and Jean M. Savanyu 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.

Petitioner, a Town Justice of the Town of Waverly, Franklin County, instituted this proceeding to review a determination of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct which found that he violated the Rules and Canons governing judicial conduct by presiding over cases involving relatives and that the appropriate sanction was removal from office. Petitioner asserts that the Commission improperly relied upon facts not...

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