Tag: Judicial Department
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Colorado Senate committee balks at governor’s judicial discipline nominations
In a bipartisan rebuke of how a years-long scandal has been handled, a Colorado Senate committee on Monday made the rare move of not approving the gubernatorial reappointment of the top two members of the state’s Commission on Judicial Discipline. Just months after voters statewide overwhelmingly chose to change how Colorado disciplines judges, the state…
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Critics decry ‘black hole’ of oversight for code violations by appointed judges
Colorado’s method of investigating and disciplining judges for alleged violations of its code of conduct doesn’t apply to retired jurists specially appointed to handle individual cases. Similarly, the state’s investigative arm that looks into allegations of attorney misconduct also has no jurisdiction over issues involving private judges, as they are known, outside of the same…
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Colorado Senate committee advances bill to create 29 judgeships, with lawmaker support delicate
‘There is no time for reviewing the case before trial. I have to wing everything,’ warned one county court judicial officer
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Justice Melissa Hart tells Fountain Valley School graduates public service ‘is an attitude’
Hart spoke about the Judicial Department’s values, the nature of public service and the importance of maintaining friendships as adults
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Case against district judge in Adams County allegedly ‘slow-walked’ to discipline commission
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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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More than a half dozen Colorado judges still haven’t filed financial disclosure
More than a half dozen Colorado judges are still delinquent in updating missing personal financial disclosure statements with state officials, despite a Denver Gazette investigation that flagged them about the problem two weeks ago. There were 15 judges delinquent as of Thursday — one of them on the Appellate Court bench — but the number more than halved…
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State judicial discipline panel seeks information on more than 120 judges who did not file personal financial disclosures
Colorado’s Commission on Judicial Discipline is compiling “in-depth” information on more than 120 judges who The Denver Gazette recently revealed had not filed personal financial disclosure reports to the state this year despite a law requiring it, according to emails obtained by the newspaper. More than two dozen of the judges haven’t had a disclosure…
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Despite law, one in six Colorado judges doesn’t have financial disclosures filed, some for years
It’s a misdemeanor to willingly not file the disclosures, but there’s little enforcement
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Colorado voters to see constitutional amendment on judicial discipline reform in 2024
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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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Appellate record an objective, important measure of a judge’s performance
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Most experts agree judicial performance commissions should look at a judge’s whole appellate record, but cautiously