A Rochester City Court judge who was recommended for removal from office earlier this year by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct will have her case to be reinstated heard by the state’s highest court next week.

Judge Leticia Astacio, whose removal was recommended in April, is asking the Court of Appeals to lower the commission’s recommendation from a removal to a censure for driving while intoxicated in 2016, violating her conditional discharge, and acting inappropriately from the bench.

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