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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I think it's kind of hard to fire a judge.
Here in Colorado we have retention votes for judges. The good judges get 99 percent retention votes and the terrible judges get 85 percent retention votes. No one knows anything about judges so everyone votes for them. My own philosophy is that I vote to kick every one of them out every time, because I also know nothing about them and figure that if it's close enough to make a difference that judge must be completely insane and leg-humping witnesses on the witness stand.
I know that a lot of places have elected judges, too. Ours are appointed. Are there other models?
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And this needs to change. All judges know that it's hard for them to be removed and therefore nibble along the edges of their duties because they can. Do just enough to not circumvent their power and get axed, but to satisfy their own personal issues.
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Originally Posted by Shogun
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If that's the case then it just makes it look worse for her. You can't assume he did something and then make a judgement like that because of it. If someone standing next to her told her then I suppose that's fine but even then, she could have had this ridiculous scenario in her mind of how it went down and made a judgement based off that which is still bad. IMO she's still looks ridiculous.