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What
is
the
most
you’ve
paid
for
a
traffic
ticket?
Getting
a
traffic
ticket
in
New
York
usually
sets
folks
back
a
couple
hundred
bucks.
However,
there
are
some
outliers:
a
traffic
ticket
cost
a
New
York
judge
his
robes.
Law.com
has
coverage:
A
western
New
York
jurist
has
resigned
amid
a
probe
that
he
tried
to
invoke
his
judicial
office
to
avoid
being
issued
tickets
for
unlicensed
driving,
a
state
watchdog
said
Monday.
Former
Clarkson
Town
Court
Justice
Ian
Penders,
an
attorney
since
2014,
quit
the
bench
amid
the
New
York
State
Commission
on
Judicial
Conduct’s
investigation.The
CJC
said
the
judge
in
Monroe
County
had
been
stopped
by
police
twice
in
June,
and
on
Aug.
15
pleaded
guilty
to
the
misdemeanor
charge
of
aggravated
unlicensed
operation
of
a
motor
vehicle
in
the
third
degree.
You
got
stopped
twice?
Learn
to
quit
while
you’re
behind,
man.
While
this
isn’t
an
excuse
for
the
former
judge’s
behavior,
it
goes
to
show
that
location
really
matters.
Were
the
judge
trying
to
get
around
New
York
City
proper,
he
probably
would
have
been
able
to
catch
a
train
or
three
to
get
where
he
needed
to
go.
Once
you
leave
the
five
boroughs
and
actually
need
a
car
to
get
around,
you
open
yourself
up
to
all
sorts
of
foolishness.
While
this
is
definitely
one
of
the
tamest
Judges
Behaving
Badly
stories
I’ve
ever
seen,
the
threshold
for
the
appearance
of
impropriety
is
very
low
at
the
end
of
the
day.
If
you
don
the
robes
and
gavel,
you
have
to
be
on
your
best
behavior
—
even
when
you’re
just
getting
from
A
to
B.
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.