Tag: Judicial Department
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Case against district judge in Adams County allegedly ‘slow-walked’ to discipline commission
A second judicial discipline case, that of 17th Judicial District Judge Robert Kiesnowski Jr. who resigned last year, has key connections with Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian Boatright, according to documents and interviews. District Court Judge Robert W. Kiesnowski Jr. Despite promises by Boatright to state legislators in 2021 that he would monitor all…
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Colorado voters to see constitutional amendment on judicial discipline reform in 2024
Along with the next American president, Colorado voters in November 2024 will decide whether to change the state’s system of disciplining its judges, the culmination of a judiciary scandal that began nearly five years ago with revelations of an insider-deal contract. The Colorado legislature on Monday formally approved the proposed amendment – House Concurrent Resolution…
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State Supreme Court wades into intrajudicial conflict over rights of employees
Colorado’s Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether judges have the power to review personnel decisions involving judicial employees, a rare case in which different parts of the judicial branch are arguing for opposite interpretations of existing rules. During oral arguments on Wednesday, the state’s justices heard that judicial employees are legally different from…
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Letters show Colorado Supreme Court stalled discipline commission’s scandal investigation
In the months following the disclosure that a high-ranking former employee of Colorado’s Judicial Department allegedly threated to reveal in a lawsuit years of hidden judicial misconduct, the Colorado Supreme Court threw up roadblock after roadblock — at times even refusing outright to hand over information — at the efforts to investigate the scandal by the body that…
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State fraud hotline generates investigations that rarely see light of day
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado auditors have been investigating for more than two years whether fraud occurred at the Colorado’s Secretary of State’s Office when Wayne Williams headed it as an elected official. Williams, a Republican who lost his re-election bid for secretary of state in 2018 and is…
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Results of fraud audit into Colorado judicial misconduct memo may never become public
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court this week handed over for investigation to the Colorado State Auditor’s Office a memo detailing nearly two dozen instances of judicial and administrator misconduct at the heart of an alleged $2.72 million hush money contract scandal, but the public may never…