Women Ask to Get "Smacked Around"

(New York) Former justice of the Hunter Village Court in Greene County, Robert Hamley, was charged with ethical violations by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

One charge said Hamley told a plaintiff in a domestic abuse case that all domestic violence cases were a "waste of the court's time" and that he also told a law enforcement officer that most women enjoyed being abused and asked to get "smacked around," the commission said in a statement on Tuesday.

The second charge against Hamley stated he took jurisdiction of traffic charges pending before another court and improperly disposed of the cases.

My take is that Hamley was either drunk or dumb or both when he did these things. In any event, he resigned rather than try to defend his stupidity.

Hat tip: Wizbang