Two Larimer County District judges linked to the overturned Tim Masters murder conviction both should be retained as judges, according to the State Commission on Judicial Performance.
Both Jolene Blair and Terence Gilmore got high marks for their work on the bench from the commission, which issued its recommendations on judicial retention .
Voters will decide in November if Blair and Gilmore as well over 130 justices and judges should be retained.
A group of Larimer County residents are fighting to keep Blair and Gilmore from being retained, citing their work as prosecutors in the Masters case. Masters was convicted in 1999 for the 1987 murder of Peggy Hettrick.
But new DNA evidence pointed to another killer and Masters was freed in 2008.
Blair and Gilmore were both censured by an arm of the Colorado Supreme Court for mismanaging the Masters case.
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