ABINGDON–Virginia Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr., speaking at a “town hall” meeting in Southwest Virginia, pronounced an obituary for the state’s controversial judicial performance evaluation program.
“It’s dead – that’s about the nicest way I can say it,” Hassell said. “That program will not exist for quite some time, I believe, because of the state’s dire financial condition.”
The JPE program prompted an unusual stand-off between the judicial branch and some members of the legislature during the 2009 General Assembly session.
By Peter Vieth
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1 Gail Lakritz // Jul 17, 2009 at 7:09 pm
This is an outrage. Courts are not courts of record, secret juries and no oversight of judges. Am I the only one who sees a pattern here?