=> Boulder Judge Suspended ...!
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City Council won't discuss decision
By Ryan Morgan Special to The Denver Post
Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - Most Boulder City Council members last week backed the
decision to place Municipal Judge Sheila Carrigan on administrative leave. Carrigan, on
the bench as the city's only full-time judge since 1994, was placed on leave beginning
Monday.
City officials refused to discuss any details of their action.
A spokeswoman said City Attorney Joe de Raismes polled City Council members, and a
majority agreed to place Carrigan on leave. The decision was not made at a council meeting
or in an executive session.
Carrigan's leave is indefinite. In the meantime, two part-time judges will handle her
caseload.
"We expect that there will be some kind of action within a month," de Raismes said. "But
it's a personnel matter, and we have to be careful. There are reputations at stake. You
are dealing with very, very personal information which needs to be kept confidential if
possible."
The municipal judge, like the city manager and city attorney, works directly for the City
Council.
Council members make decisions on those three positions based on annual evaluations that
begin in April every year, Councilman Spense Havlick said.
"Every year, each of these employees undergoes an evaluation review," he said. "It's made
up of input from their co-workers . . . department heads and people in the community who
provide a confidential assessment of the person's performance."
The evaluations also determine whether those three employees receive bonuses. In July, the
City Council gave Carrigan a $3,700 raise to her $96,000 salary.
Havlick, one of two council members responsible for coordinating the evaluations, declined
to comment on Carrigan's case.
Local attorneys described Carrigan, 41 - who has drawn praise for expanding the city's
restorative justice program - as a competent and vocal judge.
"I've appeared before her a number of times and was always dealt with fairly and
honestly," attorney Ben Thompson said.
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René
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Why are you reposting this stuff?
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> "- Vox Populi ©" <v...@popu.li> wrote in message
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> Why are you reposting this stuff?
Why are you reading it?
Daniel Packman
- Vox Populi Š <v...@popu.li> wrote:
>Boulder judge placed on leave ...
Thanks for sharing, but we can read/listen/look at
the media without assistance.
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Daniel Packman
>> news:yY1x7.1173$d51.1...@news.uswest.net...
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>> Why are you reposting this stuff?
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>Why are you reading it?
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The indication that you reposted this is
much stronger than the indication that
anyone is reading it.
But thanks for sharing anyway.
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> In article <tj2x7.1188$d51.1...@news.uswest.net>,
> - Vox Populi © <v...@popu.li> wrote:
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> >René <k98m...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >> news:yY1x7.1173$d51.1...@news.uswest.net...
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> >> Why are you reposting this stuff?
> >
> >Why are you reading it?
> >
> >Boulder judge placed on leave ...
>
> The indication that you reposted this is
> much stronger than the indication that
> anyone is reading it.
>
> But thanks for sharing anyway.
Did you read it DannyBoy ...?
Larry Smith
because of the judge's removal from office but because of the secrecy in concealing the
reasons therefor. The public has a right to know specific details about the status and
behavior of its public officials and why they are sanctioned, especially judicial officials
who sit in judgment of others. Not to do so instigates public disrespect of the judicial
process and disrepute of the judiciary. What do they have to hide? What if Judge Carrigan is
a shoplifter or an inebriate?
When a person ascends to public office, in ANY of the three branches of government, it is a
public trust attained which subjects the official to the burdens of public office as well as
the enjoyment of the office's benefits, and that person's privacy must yield to the greater
good of the public served.
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Daniel Packman <pa...@eos.ucar.edu> wrote in message news:9q2bs2$cqg$1...@news.ucar.edu...
> In article <yY1x7.1173$d51.1...@news.uswest.net>,
> - Vox Populi © <v...@popu.li> wrote:
> >Boulder judge placed on leave ...
>
> Thanks for sharing, but we can read/listen/look at
> the media without assistance.
Who's "we" DannyBoy ...? You and your imaginary friend?
When I post something specifically for you, I'll let you know.
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and
hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins;
all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken, 1923
Daniel Packman
>> In article <yY1x7.1173$d51.1...@news.uswest.net>,
>> >Boulder judge placed on leave ...
>>
>> Thanks for sharing, but we can read/listen/look at
>> the media without assistance.
>
>Who's "we" DannyBoy ...? You and your imaginary friend?
I'll have you know that my imaginary friend is reads
most of the same groups I do.
>When I post something specifically for you, I'll let you know.
Thanks. And thanks for sharing.
JMK-BocaRaton
to get a judgeship. their no better than the scum that spawned them. the
legal system is a cruel hoax foisted on the American people, designed to
steal billions of hard earned clients dollars, while offering nothing of
value in return. a lawyer can get away with almost anything, and they
do......
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