Although the Colorado Supreme Court acknowledged on Monday that a Saguache County judge was disqualified by law from presiding over a criminal case because she briefly represented the defendant before her appointment to the bench, a majority concluded there was nothing it could do because the defense knew about the conflict and stayed silent.
A Georgia probate judge is protected by judicial immunity in a suit alleging that he improperly denied a state license to carry weapons to a man who had previously been convicted of misdemeanor assault, a state appellate court found on Tuesday.