A town justice in Wayne County, New York, has resigned after he was accused of making public statements criticizing the state’s criminal justice system and implying that he ignored the presumption of innocence for defendants that appeared before him.
Scott Stone, who was a justice of Butler Town Court and Wolcott Village Court in western New York, was accused by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct of making those statements at a Wolcott Village Board meeting.
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