MOHAWK---Mohawk town justice Roy Dumar, faced with disciplinary action by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct for the second time in 18 months, has resigned.

Dumar, who had three years remaining in his term, submitted his written resignation Sept. 7, to be effective Oct. 15, to the Office of Court Administration who subsequently notified the town.

Dumar had been served with a formal written complaint by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct dated June 20 and entered into a stipulation with the judicial commission on Sept. 16. He has agreed to neither seek nor accept judicial office at any time in the future.

Dumar had been a part-time town justice in Mohawk Town Court since September, 1999. He is not an attorney.

The commission alleged that between September 2002 and September 2004, Dumar repeatedly asserted his judicial office in communications with police officers, other judges and court personnel in his own and other courts, in attempting to further his own and his wife's criminal complaints against her ex-husband and sister-in-law in related civil matters.

The complaint also alleged that from about March 31, 2004, to Sept. 3, 2004, Dumar misused his judicial position in connection with his and his wife's personal disputes with her ex-husband.

The commission had already censured Dumar for similar conduct, instituting proceedings against him on Feb. 11, 2004 culminating in a determination dated May 18, 2004 for invoking his judicial office in connection with a private dispute involving the repair of his snowmobiles.

Dumar is the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit filed against his wife's ex-husband, Thomas Fudger. According to the court papers, in 2003 Fudger filed a petition in Fulton County Family Court accusing Dumar of allegedly molesting his daughter.

Dumar has filed a $500,000 defamation suit against Fudger in Fulton County Supreme Court.
10-28-05

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