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328. A great judge, except for that

By Joel Jacobsen

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I was reminded of Daniel J. Martinez (see post 327) by the case of Judge Restaino (see post 326). Soon after Martinez was acquitted of two extraordinarily brutal crimes that he almost certainly committed, setting off an entirely justified uproar, a friend of the Martinez family wrote a letter to the editor of the Santa Fe Reporter, the alternative weekly.Unfortunately the Reporter's online archives don't go back beyond 2000 and so I can't link to or even quote from the letter. But I remember the gist: the writer had known Daniel for years, and he was a great guy except for when he lost his temper, and that didn't happen very often.I was reminded of that by Raoul Felder's dissent from the order determining that Judge Restaino should be removed from office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on December 02, 2007 (boomark / email).

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