Court Opinion

ID: 9549272
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:15:34.345638+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:20:03.742948
License: Public Domain

OPALA, Justice,
concurring specially:
Our express state policy of affording anonymity to a judicial officer under investigation by the Council on Judicial Complaints is not to be conceived as so airtight as to rule out every exception. Although protection of fundamental values must, in some instances, be considered paramount to this policy, no persuasive showing has been made here in favor of lifting the statutory veil of secrecy for the sake of giving recognition to some inexorable command of the Constitution. Cf. Davis v. Alaska, 415 U.S. 308, 94 S.Ct. 1105, 39 L.Ed.2d 347 [1974] and Oklahoma Publishing Company v. District Court in and for Oklahoma County, 430 U.S. 308, 97 S.Ct. 1045, 51 L.Ed.2d 355 [1977].