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Tim Masters Judges

Tim Masters was wrongfully convicted of murder. His flawed conviction was upheld by the Colorado Supreme Court but DNA evidence proved his innocence.

After a decade in prison, he was released and his prosecutors were found to have acted unethically.

By then, they were judges.

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The Masters case was widely reported in national and local media and many sources are available.

The case even has its own Wikipedia entry and a TV documentary.

Two prosecutors on the case, now elevated to judges, would be censured for unethical conduct. Reporting revealed that one had been secretly disciplined before the Masters case.

We don't know if the Nominating Commission knew this when the lawyer was appointed as a judge.

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Even with this history, the Performance Commission recommended that voters retain the two disgraced prosecutors as judges.

Local citizens organized a grassroots movement opposed to keeping the two censured prosecutors on the bench as judges.

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Colorado voters would override the Performance Commission and oust the censured judges.

Is this an example of judicial accountability working or voters overruling a broken system?

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