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Former Judge Karen Gates of Cimarron, NM; ethical misfit

 

The Judicial Standards Commission found Karen guilty of engaging in the following misconduct, all of which took place while was employed as a Cimarron County Municipal Court Judge

  • Failed to recuse herself from cases filed in her court by the Cimarron Police Department where her ex-husband and co-habitant, Ryan Gates, is Chief of Police
  • Engaged in willful misconduct in office
  • Willfully failed to avoid conflicts of interests
  • Failed to hear and decide cases filed by the Cimarron Police Department which constituted a substantial portion of her case and instead delegated the case on her docket to an alternate judge
  • Continued to receive and accept full payment of her regular salary while the alternate judge received a substantially disproportionate salary relative to the workload he was required to handle

Rather than wait for a ruling from the New Mexico Supreme Court that would likely have resulted in her being removed from office, Karen did what any coward would do under the circumstances, she resigned.

 

As we speak (ca. March 2022), it is rumored that Karen has an application pending for a job as a greeter at the Walmart Supercenter Store at 2921 Toupal Drive in Trinidad, Colorado.

 

 

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