A veteran upstate town justice with just weeks left in his term should be removed immediately for jailing defendants in five cases without affording them due process, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended.
The commission said in an opinion released Feb. 10 that Michael M. Feeder, a non-attorney justice in the Hudson Falls Village Court in Washington County, should be ousted for “precipitously” holding defendants in contempt and sending them to jail for their behavior in court in 2007 and 2008.
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