Tag: Judicial Discipline
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Judicial discipline commission compares SCOTUS ethical lapses to state judges’ disclosure violations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In an unusually detailed and strongly worded report, Colorado’s judicial discipline body made clear on Friday that dozens of judges broke the law by failing to file financial disclosure statements on time, but that not every instance merited discipline in light of related behavior from…
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Colorado Supreme Court censures ex-Denver juvenile Judge Brett Woods for alcohol use, retaliation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court censured former Denver Juvenile Court Presiding Judge D. Brett Woods on Monday for being intoxicated on the job and for firing an employee who first reported his problematic alcohol use five years ago. Woods was a judge on Denver’s freestanding juvenile…
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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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New state judicial discipline system won’t include Denver county judges
Nearly two dozen Denver County Court judges will not be impacted by any reform to the state’s judicial discipline system should voters approve the proposal next year. That’s because Denver’s 19 county jurists — each appointed by the mayor and apart from the 27 Denver district court judges named by the governor — fall under an autonomous…
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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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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…