Wednesday, April 11, 2012

TN Legislature Enacts New Discipline System for Judges

After years of sometimes heated argument, the House sent to the governor Monday night compromise legislation that puts into place a new system for disciplining judges for misdeeds on the bench.

Final approval came on an 88-5 House vote without any debate. The Senate had approved SB2671 unanimously earlier.

Though the votes came with virtually no discussion, the debate over the past three years has included repeated charges that the present Court of the Judiciary ignored judicial misdeeds and operated in unwarranted secrecy. Former Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner was offered by critics of the current system as a prime example of its shortcomings.

Source:
Legislature Enacts New Discipline System for Tenn. Judges

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's about freakin' time!

Chuck said...

Judge Randy Kennedy is the primest example!

Anonymous said...

Maybe there is hope for justice in this country! Keep going!

StandUp said...

Kennedy was my first thought too.

Anonymous said...

How many cases of abuse and neglect does it take before a judge is looked at?

Norma said...

Obviously, the vote showed the legislature knows there's a problem. Now will this new system be an improvement? We shall see!