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MATTER OF WATSON

100 N.Y.2d 290 (2003)

794 N.E.2d 1

763 N.Y.S.2d 219

In the Matter of WILLIAM WATSON, a Judge of the Lockport City Court, Niagara County, Petitioner. STATE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 10, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Connors & Vilardo, LLP, Buffalo (Terrence M. Connors, Lawrence J. Vilardo and Vincent E. Doyle III of counsel), and Timothy P. Murphy, Lockport, for petitioner.

Gerald Stern, New York City, and John J. Postel for respondent.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Albany (Caitlin J. Halligan, Robert H. Easton and Edward Lindner of counsel), for Attorney General of State of New York, amicus curiae.

Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP, Houston, Texas (S. Shawn Stephens and Fermeen F. Fazal of counsel), for Ad Hoc Committee Dedicated to an Independent Judiciary, amicus curiae.

Deborah Goldberg, New York City, and J.J. Gass for Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and others, amici curiae.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SMITH, CIPARICK, WESLEY, ROSENBLATT, GRAFFEO and READ concur in per curiam opinion.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Per 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...

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