Responding to ethics charges that he represented Montville’s mayor while serving as the town’s judge, Seth Davenport admits to providing “some limited services” but denies knowingly breaching court rules or judicial canons.

In an answer filed Monday, Davenport says that when he signed a 2006 certification stating that once he became a judge, he ceased providing legal services for Mayor John Rosellini Jr., he “held a reasonable and good-faith belief.”