Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Sunday, September 03, 2006 12:44:16 PM
The premise of this blog isn't that all judges are bad, corrupt, inattentive, or whatever. They are not. We have some really outstanding judges in Colorado, judges who probably go out of their way to protect the public from the system.
One of those judges is
David Shakes, who is also an Army Reserve Military Judge. For my view of military justice as compared to civilian justice you might read my comments to the post at a blog which alleges that a USCGA Cadet shouldn't have been courts-martialed. I
disagreed. My comments are labeled with my screen name, Not Legal Roadkill Yet.
If I could set requirements for appointment to a judgeship in Colorado, I would demand experience as a military judge. That really isn't practical, but this blog likely wouldn't exist if Colorado had more than a few judges of the calibre of Judge Shakes.