A part-time City Court judge in Oswego County should be censured for failing to shed his legal clients in four cases that were before the court when he was appointed to the bench. The state Commission on Judicial Conduct said yesterday that P. Michael Shanley failed to heed warnings to remove himself from the four matters following his appointment to the bench in 2007. Though he neither appeared before the City Court nor accepted fees for representing those clients, the commission said his continued presence in the cases compromised his ethical obligations.
See Determination and News Release.
