ALBANY - The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced that Robert Link, a Justice of the Oppenheim Town Court, Fulton County, resigned from office after being served with formal disciplinary charges. Pursuant to a stipulation, the Judge Link agreed not to seek or accept judicial office in the future. On that basis, the Commission proceeding against him was closed on September 20.

The judge was served with a Formal Written Complaint dated April 17, 2012, alleging that between May 2009 and September 2010, he failed to advise a defendant of the right to counsel or to a hearing, improperly elicited admissions from the defendant, considered ex parte communications, found a defendant guilty without a plea or trial, failed to disclose personal involvement in a defendant’s business operation and then failed to disqualify himself from the matter, and failed to mechanically record court proceedings in two cases.