In a relatively rare occasion, voters in Maricopa County appear to have voted to not retain three judges in this year's judicial retention election, according to preliminary results from the county.
was deemed to have not met Judicial Performance Standards, with 15 commissioners having voted that he does not meet the standards.obtained from the website of the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct, Hopkins was reprimanded in June 2020, as a result of complaints filed by public defender James J. Haas and Barbara Marshall, an attorney with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
The complaints allege that Hopkins was at the center of six incidents involving what was described as "improper demeanor and a denial of the right to be heard." The incidents involved separate legal cases from May 2019 to January 2020. "In his response, Judge Hopkins only minimally accepted responsibility for his own conduct, claiming it was sometimes justified by the rude behavior of either the attorney or the litigant," read a portion of the reprimand. "The Commission did not find any of the conduct to be justified, and the obligations placed on a judge by the Code are not dependent upon how a judge is treated by those who appear before them.
As part of the reprimand, Hopkins was ordered by the Commission to complete demeanor training within a year of the order's issuance.on judicial retention elections in Arizona, we noted that from 1978 to the present day, voters in Arizona have only voted to not retain three judges in two elections: Court of Appeals judge Gary K. Nelson and Maricopa County Superior Court judge Fred J. Hyder in 1978, and Maricopa County Superior Court judge Benjamin Norris in 2014.
It is also worth noting that in at least one instance, voters have voted to retain a judge who was convicted of a crime.
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