State panel recommends removal of Finger Lakes town judge after he repeatedly used the ‘n-word’

State panel recommends removal of Finger Lakes town judge after he repeatedly used the ‘n-word’

Canandaigua, N.Y. - The state Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended the removal of an Ontario County town justice who it says repeatedly used a racial slur and made a racially insensitive remark in court. The commission announced Friday that it had found that Walter W. Jones, a justice of the Canandaigua Town Court, used the “n-word” multiple times during a conversation with court staff. Five days later in court, he said a Black defenda…