Records are described in the NY Commission for Justice Behavior in 2024

Albany – The Commission, which was charged with defect in New York due to the investigation of misconduct allegations, introduced the highest number of symptoms in its history last year.

In 2024, the State Commission for Justice Behavior received 3,353 complaints, an increase of 12% in one year, as was evident from the annual report of the Commission published on Tuesday. The number of symptoms increased by 37% compared to the five -year average of 2,443 annual symptoms.

Robert H. Tembeckjian, the administrator and lawyer of the Commission, said that he was of the opinion that the increase in three factors was due to: the increase in public attention to ethical conflicts in which judges from the Supreme Court of the United States are involved; The public is better in finding ways to submit their symptoms, and the work of the Commission itself increases its profile, wrote Tembeckjian in an e -mail.

“The public profile of the Commission is increasing when their disciplinary decisions are announced. More and more people learn what we do and they are not shy to communicate with us,” he wrote.

The state has 3,350 judges and judges who monitor around 3,500 court positions – from village courts to the court of appeal, the highest court in the state. Over 60%-2.090-sind part-time and village judge. Of these, there are only 880 city and village judges lawyers. New York does not demand that city and village principals be lawyers. Judges at all other levels of the state court system must be lawyers.

While only 10% of the symptoms received in 2024 were for city and village judges, they made up 55% of the investigation that the Commission approved.

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The increase is not a new trend. The Commission has a steady increase in the number of symptoms that it has received in the past decade.

Tembeckjian found that the number of public disciplinary measures increased relatively stable while the symptoms increased. Tembeckjian said that the increase in the symptoms did not increase the misconduct of judicial.

The commission's decisions support this.

Due to these complaints submitted in 2024, the Commission employees opened 537 preliminary reviews. The Commission's employees carry out a first review of the complaints submitted, and those who were rejected without earnings or outside the jurisdiction of the Commission are rejected. The Commission does not investigate any controversial court decisions and cannot intervene in an outstanding case or refer a decision on the legal proceedings.

The majority of the complaints of the past year came from civil legal disputes that submitted 1,970 complaints. Criminal accused added another 951.

The Commission voted for the opening of 159 investigations of these reviews. The Commission also had 185 pending examinations from 2023. From the combined 344 examinations, 189- more than half of the two-year total number of total number of total number of two.

Another 63 were rejected and a further 28 complaints were rejected with discharge and precautionary letter. Another 27 complaints in which 15 different judges were involved were closed because the judge in question had resigned. Eight others closed because the judge's office became free for other reasons than the resignation. And 29 complaints with 23 judges led to formal charges.

In 2024, the Commission only met 11 formal disciplinary provisions. Of these, three led to a judge, three were censored and five had to be publicly wasted.

The most remarkable case in 2024 was Erin Gall, the judge in the Utica region. The Commission recommended that Gall remove Gall from the bank after being deployed to shoot black teenagers, insulting their secret services and repeatedly insulting their job as a judge as a judge on July 2, 2022 during a girlfriend.

In the capital region, Rotterdam Town Justice James A. Bradshaw Jr. Agreed to Resign – And Never Hold Judicial Office Again – In 2024 after he was served with a formal complaint alleging he called litigants, “remarked it what” debatable “that assistant public defender Lawyer, and Refused to Impose Concurrent Sentences on a Defendant Because “When you commit a crime in Rotterdam, you do the time for Rotterdam. ”

The Commission also censored Rensselaer County Family Court judge Jill Kehn, who was part of the court and disparaged and disparaged.

According to the State Justice Act, the Commission is prohibited from disclosing charges against a judge until a case has been concluded, and a determination of admonition, criticism, distance or retirement was made.

Thirteen further procedures for the Commission were concluded and led to the fact that judges had resigned and agreed not to look for a future judicial office.

The Commission also approved in its annual report for laws that would reconcile New York in accordance with dealing with legal behavior examinations.

One aspect would close a gap that enables the judges to step down without having further consequences for ethical falsifications. According to state law, the Commission has 120 days after a judge has resigned to continue their investigation, but cannot impose any further sanctions. The Commission found that many investigations take longer to conclude what the Commission prevents from saying whether a judge was examined and what the allegations were. This means that a judge could step down and then run again for the office, which the Commission found that it took place.

The law would also enable the Commission to make it known if formal charges were raised against a judge. In New York, all legal proceedings are held behind closed doors. In 38 other countries, formal charges and legal proceedings for judges are public.

“The public not only has the right to know when a enforcement authority was raised against an official formal charges, but the enforcement companies are more likely to exercise their power if it is subject to public examination,” the Commission wrote in its report.