Court Opinion

ID: 9792613
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:31:47.43132+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:43.898403
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ORDER ON REHEARING This matter has come on for hearing upon Motion for Rehearing filed on October 25, 1982, by Respondent, Donaldo A. Martinez, District Judge, Fourth Judicial District. Respondent filed with his Motion for Rehearing additional transcript and addendum. Based upon this Court’s review of the Motion for Rehearing and the record in this cause, it is ordered that the Motion for Rehearing and Reconsideration be denied. a. Respondent’s contention on rehearing that the proceedings before the Judicial Standards Commission are invalid because a member of the Commission, Judge Thomas Donnelly, participated in those proceedings, is without merit. The Judicial Standards Commission minutes reflect the following: Judge Donnelly said that Judge Martinez’s [sic] animosity toward his father might extend to himself so that it best [sic] that he not participate in the hearing. b. Respondent’s restatement of circumstances deemed to have been ignored by this Court in its original opinion is without merit. The matters raised by respondent are: (1) The issuance by petitioner of a writ of habeas corpus in the face of an order by another district judge that the parties be transported to the State Penitentiary. 2.The issue of disqualification by petitioner of the District Attorney for the 4th Judicial District and juvenile proceedings, and the subsequent mandate from this Court that petitioner had no authority to disqualify the district attorney. 3. Failure of petitioner to recuse in cases in which the petitioner’s son appeared as an attorney before him. 4. Failure of the requisite number of the Judicial Standards Commission to vote in favor of the recommended disciplinary action. These issues were raised by respondent in the original proceedings and ruled against Respondent. Upon further review we confirm the result reached in the original proceedings. c.The remaining issues raised by Respondent are without merit. The opinion of this Court in Cause No. 14,237, In The Matter of Donaldo A. Martinez, District Judge, filed September 29, 1982, shall remain in full force and effect, except that the suspension shall begin on January 17, 1983. FEDERICI, J., and LORENZO F. GARCIA, RUEBEN E. NIEVES and LOUIS E. DePAULI, District Judges, concur.