The state Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined in unrelated cases that three local justices should be censured. The actions announced yesterday bring to 10 the number of censures the commission recommended in 2009. All told, it voted 25 public sanctions, about average for the last few years.
Paul J. Herrmann, justice of Saranac Lake Village Court, Franklin County and the only one of the three who is an attorney, was censured for improper political activities and for failing to accept a plea bargain with a motorist because the judge wanted a disposition that would bring revenue to the village.
