A judge from Wayne County, New York, was publicly censured on Tuesday after she held a preliminary hearing for a defendant without his attorney present, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct said.
Justice Kathy Wachtman of the Huron Town Court, who is not an attorney, agreed to the censure after denying a request to move the hearing by the defendant’s attorney in 2017.
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