Michael Petucci, left, stands next to attorney Jonathan Cohn during Petucci’s arraignment in City of Little Falls Court, N.Y., on Jan. 8, last year. Photo: WKTV
The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has censured an upstate town court judge who crashed his car into the side of an abandoned building while drunk.
According to a written determination made public Monday, Justice Michael A. Petucci of Herkimer Town Court had consumed at least five drinks before the crash in December 2018. Petucci, who is not an attorney, was also “belligerent” with responding officers and refused to undergo a series of field sobriety tests, the commission’s report said.
