Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Judge candidate interviews on the Gazette

The Copper Gazette sent interview questions to each candidate for Calaveras County Superior Court Judge, Dept 1 and Dept 2.

Each candidate received the same questions and had seven days with which to respond.

The Gazette will begin posting the answers of those who responded beginning April 7, 2014.

As always, before casting your vote, become informed, ask questions of those seeking to represent you.

The following are the questions and rules submitted to the candidates:



Judge candidate interview questions:
For which department is your candidacy?
How long have you resided in Calaveras County?
What are your qualifications?
What are your greatest strengths?
What are your greatest weaknesses?
Do you feel you can be impartial?
Why have you chosen to be a candidate for civil/criminal superior court judge?
What do you perceive as the greatest obstacles to justice within our County?
How would you address the perceived rise in juvenile crime?
Do you support specialty courts? (Please explain your answer and define which specialty courts you would like to see continue or implemented in Calaveras County.)
What is your general judicial philosophy?
Would you favor or oppose a system in which all sentencing decisions were routinely reported in local newspapers, indexed by the name of the judge?
Have you ever been disciplined by the State Bar association?
What are your outside interests?

At this point I will allow any additional information the candidate would like to disseminate to the public within the parameters of the judicial canon, limited to 200 words. 

Please note; each candidate will receive the same set of questions. Interviews will be posted in the order received. The deadline to submit responses will be April 3, 2014, 9am. Interviews will begin to be posted April 7, 2014.

Rules: The invitation to be interviewed by the Copper Gazette comes with the caveat that each interviewee will maintain a high level of propriety and highlight their best attributes. The Gazette will NOT print inflammatory or derogatory statements made of other candidates. Thank you in advance for your professionalism.

Again, thank you for your participation in the Copper Gazette judicial interview process.