A state panel on judicial conduct on Thursday called for the removal of a town judge in Washington County who brandished a gun at a defendant he had described as a “big Black man,” demonstrating racial bias.
The 11-member New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, with one dissent, called for the steep sanction against Robert Putorti, a justice in Whitehall Town Court and the Whitehall Village Court.
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