Thursday, October 27, 2011

Commission recommends removal for New York judge

An upstate judge who presided over eight cases involving his girlfriend's relatives should be removed from office, the Commission on Judicial Conduct has concluded.
Lafayette Young Jr., a town justice in St. Lawrence County, not only failed to disclose his relationship with Robyne Petrie-Platt in seven of the matters, but on several occasions discussed pending charges against his girlfriend's relatives with them and his girlfriend.
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