Pitkin County Judge Erin Fernandez-Ely has decided to retire, effective Oct. 31, according to a press release.
That means a nominating commission from the 9th Judicial District will meet Aug. 31 at the Pitkin County Courthouse to interview and select nominees to be fowarded to Gov. Jared Polis for appointment, according to the release from Rob McCallum at the Colorado Judicial Department.
Eligible candidates must be a resident of Pitkin County and a high school graduate, the release states. The job pays $93,931 a year.
Applications must be received by 4 p.m. on Aug. 11 and are available at http://www.courts.state.co.us/Careers/Judge.cfm
Jury trials that were set to resume in Pitkin County next week have been postponed until the state moves the county back to Yellow level restrictions, according to a judge’s order issued last week.
And even when Yellow restrictions resume, judges here will still need to receive permission from the 9th Judicial District Chief Judge James Boyd to conduct jury trials, according to the order from Boyd.
Because of the order issued March 25, Pitkin County Judge Erin Fernandez-Ely postponed a jury trial in her court that was set to begin Thursday until June, according to Ely’s order filed Wednesday.
Nikos Hecht in a Pitkin County Jail mugshot from his domestic violence arrest in July 2015. A booking mugshot from his latest arrest was not available Friday.
Clad only in his underwear and high on drugs, a local developer and hedge fund manager held a gun to his head Thursday night outside a relative’s home near Aspen and threatened to kill himself, according to police reports.
Nikos Hecht, 50, admitted to police he’d consumed alcohol, marijuana and cocaine half-an-hour before driving his Range Rover to the home and crashing it into another car parked in the driveway. He then allegedly began banging on a front window with a bloody hand while holding the black Beretta handgun to his head and demanding to speak to a person inside, the reports state.