{"id":73274,"date":"2025-12-17T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73274\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:18:10","slug":"watertown-judge-eric-swartz-resigns-in-wake-of-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73274\/","title":{"rendered":"Watertown Judge Eric Swartz resigns in wake of investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Watertown\u2019s part-time city judge will leave his post a year early in the wake of a state investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The State Commission on Judicial Conduct says it investigated a 2024 complaint alleging that Judge Eric Swartz was suffering from a condition that interfered with his ability to perform his judicial duties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjc.ny.gov\/Determinations\/S\/Swartz.Eric.T.2025.12.02.STIP.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cjc.ny.gov\/Determinations\/S\/Swartz.Eric.T.2025.12.02.STIP.pdf\">the commission says<\/a> Swartz will step down on December 31 and that he agrees to never seek or accept judicial office in the future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The commission notes that it could have forced Swartz to retire and commends him for his decision to step down on his own. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Swartz\u2019s term was set to run through 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mayor Sarah Pierce will appoint his interim replacement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Watertown\u2019s part-time city judge will leave his post a year early in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37124,5112,9,11,10,49,51,50,37125,37126],"class_list":["post-73274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-eric-swartz","tag-judge","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-resign","tag-state-commission-on-judicial-conduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}