Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian Boatright acknowledged “inadequacies” in the state’s system for disciplining judges and said he welcomed reform while stopping short of fully supporting the current effort by lawmakers to remake the system.
“The public will not have faith in a system in which those charged with assessing misconduct of judges are overseen by judges, where judges screen all complaints against judges and select which complaints move forward for investigation,” Lee said Thursday. “If the judges control the budget, the rules, the appeals, the outcome, the system is at best suspect and at worst fundamentally flawed.”
“We want to remove any appearance of at all,” Boatright said. “It’s difficult because they would be a very small office, but by the same token, they need to be independent. Not kind of independent, or mostly independent. Our position is they should be completely independent.” “What I am trying to do is avoid that allegation,” Boatright said. “Because we have seen the harm that just allegations can make… The allegations have been as damaging, and made this year probably the most difficult year for me in my professional life, for me. So would I like to get out of that? Yes.”
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