A district court judge in Troy has asked the state’s judicial tenure commission to drop three counts in a formal complaint about her work.

A June 4 complaint against 52-4 District Judge Kirsten Nielsen Hartig alleges some court employees feared Hartig; that the judge refused to provide a mental-health assessment to the commission; lied to the commission in some of her responses to their initial investigation; and that she punished assistant prosecuting attorneys by dismissing their cases instead of rescheduling hearings.

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