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Three Colorado judges drew do-not-retain recommendations this year. State evaluators break with local reviewers.
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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

Three Colorado judges drew do-not-retain recommendations this year. State evaluators break with local reviewers.

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project I’ll be dipped: the judicial retention system does sometimes NOT recommend retention. The Colorado Politics article linked first below details a rarity in Colorado: three judges that the judicial evaluation committees (at least the local ones -- more later) recommend that voters do not retain. I say rarity, because I can only recall one other case in my time writing when this happened. I’ll leave it to you to read the article if you’d like. I went to get the information straight from the horse’s mouth and thus the three judges who didn’t get a retain recommendation are listed in links 2 - 4 below. Roughly speaking, the three are from the NE Plains, Crowley County, and Pueblo County.  The one that...
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Judicial Performance Commissions Flag Three Colorado Judges Ahead of November Election
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Colorado Politics, Approved, State

Judicial Performance Commissions Flag Three Colorado Judges Ahead of November Election

By Michael Karlik | Colorado Politics Of the 123 Colorado judges standing for retention on the November ballot, citizen-led performance commissions found that three did not meet the required performance standards. However, in an unprecedented move, the commission charged with evaluating Supreme Court and Court of Appeals members stepped in to issue its own narrative after it concluded the local performance commission in northeastern Colorado violated the rules in a “serious” manner when it gave an unfavorable review to one judge. Under Colorado’s system of selecting judges, the governor appoints new judges from a short list created by citizen-led nominating commissions that screen and interview applicants. Judges serve for at least two years before voters dec...
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Northeast Colorado judge resigns after allegations of undisclosed ties to former client
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Northeast Colorado judge resigns after allegations of undisclosed ties to former client

By Michael Karlik | Colorado Politics A judge from northeastern Colorado resigned at the end of Wednesday, and, in doing so, admitted to allegations that he used his position to aid a friend in her court case and did not disclose his personal connection in other cases involving that friend. District Court Judge Justin B. Haenlein presided in the 13th Judicial District of Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma and Kit Carson counties. He had been off the bench since the Colorado Supreme Court suspended him in November, pending a disciplinary investigation. In an April 29 letter addressed to Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez, he announced his resignation effective on April 30. Also on April 29, Haenlein's attorney submitted a filing to the three-member...
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