Author: DAVID MIGOYA david.migoya@gazette.com
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Disciplined judges, after stepping down, show up in municipal courts
Not long after 18th Judicial District Judge Natalie Chase resigned over a series of inappropriate racial remarks, she was back on the bench — as a municipal judge in tiny Deer Trail and as a traffic referee in Fort Collins. Despite a public censure by the state’s judicial discipline commission and her resignation in April 2021,…
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H₂O or Au? Aurora’s water quest sparks new hunt for gold
Editor’s Note: Part two of a two-part investigation. Read part one here. V When Aurora Water, the city utility, inked its initial deal in January 2018 to pay $31.1 million for water that emanates from the historic London Mine, it was for 1,411 acre-feet annually. But of that total volume, 370 acre-feet was still classified…
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State judicial discipline panel seeks information on more than 120 judges who did not file personal financial disclosures
Colorado’s Commission on Judicial Discipline is compiling “in-depth” information on more than 120 judges who The Denver Gazette recently revealed had not filed personal financial disclosure reports to the state this year despite a law requiring it, according to emails obtained by the newspaper. More than two dozen of the judges haven’t had a disclosure…