ALBANY – In its first-ever public discipline of an Appellate Division judge, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct on Friday admonished Fourth Department Justice Nancy Smith (See Profile) for advocating for the parole release of an inmate serving a sentence for vehicular manslaughter.
The commission said Smith sent an unsolicited letter on her judicial stationery to a parole board indicating that the inmate was a “friend” and “good person” who deserved release. In fact, while Smith had corresponded with the inmate, she never met him and her only connection to the matter was that her brother-in-law’s sister is a friend of the defendant’s mother.
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