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Justice Brian Boatright: Cheerleader for Judicial Misfits
The state of Colorado presented Brian D. Boatright with a law license in 1988 after he graduated from the University of Denver School of Law.
FYI: Former Governor John Hickenlooper was duped into appointing Brian as a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court in April 2011. Brian didn’t get the appointment because he was the most qualified attorney or jurist in Colorado. He received it because he had proven to be a reliable hack for the local politicians.
It should be noted that Brian has had his significant snout firmly implanted in the public trough for the past thirty-one (31) years. Apparently, no self-respecting law firm in the great Denver area was about to offer him a good paying job.
The case before the Colorado Supreme Court and more specifically Justice Boatright involved the matter of a criminal trial wherein the sitting jurist, Judge Ensor’s wife was a juror. Did you get that boys and girls? The trial judge allowed his wife to sit as a member of the jury.
Subsequently, the defendant appealed the conviction due to Judge Ensor’s wife being a member of the jury convicted him to the Colorado Supreme Court.
In his infinite incompetence, Justice Boatright ruled that the defendant received a fair trial. In his hyperbolic (BS) ruling, Coats said in part:
How in the hell can it be acceptable to have a trial judge’s wife sit on a jury that said judge is presiding over? To suggest this is acceptable conduct would be no different than having a judge’s wife sitting on a disciplinary panel to determine whether her husband the judge was guilty of misconduct.
In truth, Justice Boatright’s asinine ruling doesn’t’ pass the involuntary laugh test.
As we speak (ca. June 2020), Boatright continues to sit as a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court in Denver, Colorado.
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