A judge in St. Lawrence County, New York, has resigned after he allegedly ordered the eviction of a pair of tenants in a housing dispute without conducting a hearing or allowing them to be heard, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct said on Friday.

Donald Lustyik, who had been a justice of the Norfolk Town Court since 1986, resigned last month after he was contacted by the commission about the matter. He is not an attorney.

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