Record number of complaints against judges
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A record number of complaints were filed against judges in New York for the second year in a row, according to a report issued today.
The report from the state Judicial Conduct Commission found that 1,923 complaints were received last year, 212 more than the year before.
The commission decided ot remove one judges from office, censure eight and publicly admonish six others. Another 20 judges resigned last year while they were being investigated.
Since the commission was created by the Legislature in 1975, it has received 39,457 complaints and removed 157 judges from office. Another 421 resigned while under investigation.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
