The state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct says a town court judge in Western New York resigned while he was under investigation by the disciplinary commission.

Larry D. Hartwell, a justice for Lyons Town Court, stepped down April 9 after being informed that the state commission was looking into allegations he “engaged repeatedly in unauthorized ex parte communications and gave the appearance of bias in a small claims matter,” the commission said in a press release Tuesday.

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