Fourth Judicial District — El Paso and Teller Counties
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Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903
Information Number: (719) 448-7700
Facsimile: (719) 329-7046 (Colorado Springs)
Facsimile (719) 689-3038 (Cripple Creek)
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Not recommended for retention. Stepped down end of 2003 with full retirement benefits. |
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Standing for retention in 2008. Appointed July 14, 2006. Major general in Colorado National Guard and served as advisor in the Balkans. Former deputy DA and municipal judge in Manitou Springs. |
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(click here for a ruling as incoherent as you are likely to see, dated October 15, 2007) |
Ignoring res judicata and stare decisis, as well as Colorado statutes, in 2007 Crowder reopened this divorce case after 14 years and forced husband to provide life insurance with ex-wife, who has remarried, as beneficiary. Crowder also readjudicated ex-husband's military retirement pay to ex-wife's advantage 14 years after their divorce. Husband now fears for his life with ex-wife beneficiary of a $400,000 life insurance policy |
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Appointed by Gov. Ritter August 9, 2007. Grohs is a former public defender and worked in private practice from 2004 until her appointment. |
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Promoted to district judge by Gov. Ritter in May 2008. Attorneys have criticized him as being too harsh and abrupt. |
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Sentenced man to 1 year in jail because he objected to reading redfem hate literature during DV "treatment." |
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Colorado Springs Police Protective Association recommended he not be retained in 2002. Reports are he shouts and screams from the bench, should be taking anger management classes instead of sentencing people to them. In 2002 Judicial Performance Commission recommended two year probation due to numerous credible complaints that he is not of proper judicial temperament. Misapplies the law on a regular basis. Knowingly violates constitutional rights and then advises litigants of their option to appeal. |
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Has been shot at in his home. Reported to be biased and unfair in family issues. |
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Standing for retention in 2008. Appointed by Gov. Bill Owens in February 2006. Experience is with civil litigation in private practice. No prior judicial experience. |
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Not recommended for retention. "Retired" after calling litigant in case he was hearing an overeducated nigger. Despite forced retirement he is now working as a "traveling" senior judge for Colorado, filling in for vacationing judges across the state. |
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Standing for retention in 2008. Appointed July 14, 2006. Formerly an attorney with State Farm Insurance. |
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Sentenced man to 1 year in jail because he objected to reading redfem hate literature during DV "treatment." |
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Appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter in May 2007 to replace Manzanares. Former public defender and member of CO DV offender management board. |
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Warns defendants in DV cases that they will lose their Constitutional rights if they accept a plea bargain. |
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Promoted to Douglas County (18 th Judicial District) judge in February 2007. |
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No longer on bench as of June 2000. Heard to remark that he could visit Vail and golf at the expense of a ward of the court. |
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