Two Larimer County district judges who prosecuted the since-overturned Tim Masters murder conviction should be retained as judges, according to the State Commission on Judicial Performance.
Jolene Blair and Terence Gilmore got high marks for their work on the bench from the commission, which issued its recommendations on judicial retention Tuesday.
Voters will decide Nov. 2 whether Blair, Gilmore and more than 130 other justices and judges should be retained.
A group of Larimer County residents is 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 censured by an arm of the Colorado Supreme Court for mismanaging the Masters case. Monte Whaley, The Denver Post
