Re: “,” July 2 news story.
The firing of a sitting judge, right before he was about to issue a ruling in a Colorado death penalty case rumored to be in favor of the convicted man, is creating unconscionable delays in what is already a protracted, painful and expensive process. There’s just so much wrong with this — the lack of transparency by the judiciary, the allegations in the formal appeals of prosecutorial misconduct, the added expense, and the additional pain heaped on the families of the victims and the family of the man contesting his conviction.
It really looks like someone has tried to silence a judge who had spent long years hearing evidence in a life-and-death appeals case, and that smacks of government corruption piled on top of government waste. This is what happens when fallible, frail humans hold the power of life and death.
Carla Turner, Larkspur
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