Court Opinion

ID: 9855193
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:20:51.514403+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:43.295924
License: Public Domain

FELDMAN, Chief Justice,
specially concurring.
I agree with the court’s analysis and result. I write separately only to indicate that I leave for another day the case in which a judge suffers from a mental impairment so serious that it deprives him or her of cognitive ability or volitional control. In my view, violation of the Rules of Judicial Conduct caused by such a mental impairment is generally to be handled only by compulsory retirement for disability rather than by sanction for willful misconduct or conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. See Ariz. Const. Art. 6.1, § 4(A) and (B). The facts of this case do not involve such a situation.