The state’s high court on Thursday removed Broome County Family Court Judge Richard Miller II from the bench effective immediately, writing that his more recent misconduct of making sexualized statements to a widowed female court clerk, demeaning and retaliating against another court assistant, and failing to report and pay taxes, “along with his prior disciplinary history … exhibited a pattern of injudicious behavior.”

Miller’s “misconduct in the aggregate, along with his prior disciplinary history … ‘exhibited a pattern of injudicious behavior … which cannot be viewed as acceptable conduct by one holding judicial office,’” wrote a five-judge state Court of Appeals panel in a per curiam opinion in which it accepted the removal sanction argued for by the state Commission on Judicial Misconduct.

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