Both gubernatorial candidates oppose Amendment 3, a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow governors to appoint a majority of the members of
the appellate judicial commission and give governors four nominees, rather than three, to choose from in appointing appellate judges.
The bill would require recusal by any judge or justice «when a party or party's attorney to the proceeding before the judge was a member of
the appellate judicial commission or a circuit judicial commission who nominated the judge.»
In 2012, voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed the governor to appoint a majority of the members of
the appellate judicial commission and given the governor four nominees, rather than three, to choose from in appointing appellate judges.
Not exact matches
Opponents of
commission - based appointment of judges — also known as the Missouri Plan, for the state in which the
judicial selection process originated — have obtained approval from the secretary of state for two identically worded proposed constitutional amendments that would establish contested elections for Missouri's
appellate judges.
The Model Penal Code: Sentencing project provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today, including the general purposes of the sentencing system; rules governing sentence severity — including sentences of incarceration, community supervision, and economic penalties; the elimination of mandatory minimum penalties; mechanisms for combating racial and ethnic disparities in punishment; instruments of prison population control; victims» rights in the sentencing process; the sentencing of juvenile offenders in adult courts; the creation of
judicial powers to review many collateral consequences of conviction; and many issues having to do with
judicial sentencing discretion, sentencing
commissions, sentencing guidelines, and
appellate sentence review.
Over the summer, the Tennessee legislature declined to renew the state's
judicial nominating
commission, which was used to recommend well - qualified candidates for
appellate judgeships to the governor.
To provide the public with information about judges on the ballot, the Pennsylvania Bar Association offers ratings of
appellate judicial candidates provided by the Bar's Judicial Evaluation Commissio
judicial candidates provided by the Bar's
Judicial Evaluation Commissio
Judicial Evaluation
Commission (JEC).
HB 420 (Constitutional Amendment) Requires the
judicial selection
commission to publicly disclose its list of nominees for appointment to the office of the chief justice, supreme court, intermediate
appellate court, circuit courts, or district courts concurrently with its presentation of that list to the governor or the chief justice.
At the same time, the
judicial nominating
commission that currently assists the governor in choosing
appellate judges is set to expire on June 30, 2013, and unless the legislature renews it, the state will be left without a process for filling
judicial vacancies.
Oklahoma Speaker puts forth
judicial agenda: keep merit selection but change nominating
commission, term limits but only for Court of Civil Appeals, mandatory retirement age for all
appellate judges, several «placeholder» bills
Oklahoma's Senate Judiciary Committee has approved five measures that would replace
commission - based appointment of
appellate judges with contested elections, limit the role of the
judicial nominating
commission in identifying the best qualified applicants, allow the governor to replace some lawyer members of the
commission, and require
appellate judges to get 60 percent «yes» votes to be retained.
His
judicial experience included serving as a Supervising Judge of the family law panel for 3 years, Presiding Judge of the court's appellate division, and a special master for the Commission on Judicial Perf
judicial experience included serving as a Supervising Judge of the family law panel for 3 years, Presiding Judge of the court's
appellate division, and a special master for the
Commission on
Judicial Perf
Judicial Performance.