Judge Who Used Racist Slur Forced Off Bench by New York’s Highest Court

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Walter Jones, a longtime Canandaigua town justice, repeatedly used a slur aimed at Black people while telling a story set on his grandfather’s cotton farm.

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Race and Ethnicity, Black People, Ethics and Official Misconduct, Courts and the Judiciary, Cotton, Commission on Judicial Conduct (NYS), Canandaigua (NY), Finger Lakes Region (NY)