A town justice in upstate New York who bragged to colleagues about pulling a loaded gun on a “large Black man” in court should be removed from office, the state's judicial conduct commission determined.
Robert J. Putorti, 52, a non-attorney who is a justice in the town of Whitehall northeast of Albany, was presiding in a criminal case in 2015 when he brandished a semiautomatic handgun at a defendant, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct said in a decision released Thursday. The incident began to draw scrutiny in 2018 when Putorti described his actions at a meeting of the Washington County Magistrates Association, boasting he had pulled his licensed gun on a ”large Black man" about 6 feet 9 inches tall and “built like a football player." In fact, the commission said, the man was about 6 feet tall and weighed 165 pounds.
Putorti said he had brandished his gun because the defendant approached the bench “too quickly,” the commission said.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Took seven years to remove this guy after the incident?!?
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