Tag: Judiciary Scandal
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Judicial discipline changes moving at a slow pace
Colorado’s judicial system is barely closer to fixing what some have called a broken process of disciplining judges a year after voters approved a new method of dealing with the issue and eight months after revelations the state fosters a private system of judges who fall outside of that oversight. The state’s Commission on Judicial…
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Judicial discipline changes moving at a slow pace
Colorado’s judicial system is barely closer to fixing what some have called a broken process of disciplining judges a year after voters approved a new method of dealing with the issue and eight months after revelations the state fosters a private system of judges who fall outside of that oversight. The state’s Commission on Judicial…
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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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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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Proposed sweeping changes to judicial discipline process would need public approval
Colorado judges who face formal charges of misconduct would face a public trial rather than a secret one, which has been the norm for decades, according to a number of sweeping preliminary recommendations made Wednesday by an interim legislative committee reviewing changes to judicial discipline. Other changes recommended by the committee of eight legislators include…
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State court administrator admits he ‘missed’ discipline advisory and allowed ‘hairy chest’ jurist into senior judge program
Colorado State Court Administrator Steven Vasconcellos on Tuesday said he overlooked the discipline record of a retiring district court judge when he approved the jurist’s application for the senior judge program in 2018, then recently admonished the state’s judicial discipline commission for not telling the Judicial Branch about it. That judge — former Adams County District…
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Discipline commission says state court administrator falsely accused it of withholding information
Colorado’s state court administrator – the highest civilian position in the Judicial Department – last year falsely claimed judicial discipline officials failed to reveal they had admonished a district court judge of misbehavior before the judge was admitted to a senior judge program, the state’s discipline commission said in a letter filed Monday with legislators.…
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Investigators of Judicial Department contract to appear before legislative committee on discipline
The two main investigators behind a recent report that said no contract-for-silence deal existed in the Colorado Judicial Department are expected to testify Tuesday before a legislative committee on judicial discipline. Former U.S. Attorney in Colorado Robert Troyer and former Denver Independent Monitor Nicholas Mitchell are scheduled to appear before the special committee to discuss…
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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…