Court Opinion

ID: 9558837
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:17:49.218036+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:09:37.577332
License: Public Domain

MOELLER, Vice Chief Justice,
specially concurring.
The opinion correctly points out that great deference should be and is given to the recommendations of the Commission on Judicial Conduct. I am persuaded to deviate from the Commission’s recommendation in this particular ease. I reach this conclusion primarily because of my view of the extreme gravity of the allegations and findings under Count I, the Gorenc matter. Judge Peck used his judicial office to institute criminal proceedings against another individual for political or personal reasons. This is an intolerable breach of trust on the part of any judge. No one who does that has any place in the Arizona judiciary. In the final analysis, that act alone not only merits removal, but demands it.