ALBANY — The commission responsible for investigating misconduct complaints against New York judges received a record number of complaints in 2017.

The Commission on Judicial Conduct on Friday released a 268-page annual report showing that it received 2,143 complaints in 2017, the highest total of new complaints in its history and a 10 percent increase from a year earlier. The majority of complaints the commission received came from criminal defendants and civil litigants, according to the report, but 53 complaints came from lawyers and 12 from judges. 

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