DA Carol Chambers
Colorado judges commit felonies on an industrial scale because they can, and the Rocky’s editors candidly explained why: “Judges run our courts … [AND]have their little ways of bringing prosecutors to heel.” While in theory, judges are as accountable to the law as the rest of us, there isn’t a single prosecutor in the state who has the courage and character to prosecute[1], because they know that retaliation by the judges’ guild will be swift and terrible. Our Commission on Judicial Discipline is equally feckless. A former judge can even be caught red-handed stealing a laptop computer; the State invariably turns a blind eye to black-robed crime.
Back in America’s glory days, we could count on the Fourth Estate to keep a close watch on our judiciary. Sadly, “investigative journalism” has become the exclusive province of the blogs, as all that passes for “news” in the corporate press is insipid wall-to-wall coverage of JonBenet, Natalee, and Anna Nicole. The Rocky has become scarcely more than a local Sports Illustrated, and I am often forced to get my news from New Zealand.
Kudos to District Attorney Chambers for showing the kind of character and professionalism not often seen among that subclass of craven invertebrates otherwise known as lawyers. Pity that our modern journalists and newspaper editors don’t have any more of a spine.
This letter has not been edited.