ALBANY – A former judge’s "life well led" justifies reversing the determination by the Commission on Judicial Conduct that he should be removed from office for having had sexual contact with his 5-year-old niece once in 1972when he was 25 and before he passed the barhis attorney argued yesterday before the state Court of Appeals.
While Bryan Hedges resigned in 2012 as a Family Court judge in Onondaga County amid the commission’s investigation and has no desire to be a judge again, his attorney told the Court of Appeals that it is unfair that he be ruined by "distant acts in the mists of time."
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