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MATTER OF RAAB

100 N.Y.2d 305 (2003)

793 N.E.2d 1287

763 N.Y.S.2d 213

In the Matter of IRA J. RAAB, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau 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

Emery Celli Cuti Brinckerhoff & Abady P.C., New York City (John R. Cuti, Richard D. Emery and Eric Hecker of counsel), for petitioner.

Robert H. Tembeckjian, New York City, and Gerald Stern 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 sustained four charges of misconduct and determined that petitioner, a justice of the Supreme Court, should be censured (see NY Const, art VI, § 22; Judiciary Law § 44). Upon our review of the record and after consideration of the legal arguments raised by petitioner, we sustain the finding of misconduct and accept the determined...

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