The State Judicial Selection Process
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Assignment 1: The State Judicial Selection Process
Due Week 5 and worth 200 points
Each state within the United States has its own unique judicial selection process within its own court system.
Using the Internet or Strayer databases, research the judicial selection process for different court systems from different states within the U.S. Court System.
Write a five to eight (5-8) page paper in which you:
Discuss the judicial selection process of your state. Include, at a minimum, the qualifications and steps that are taken in order to select judges for the different kinds of courts within your specific state.
Choose a second state, and describe the qualifications and the selection process for judges within that state.
Compare and contrast for both states the qualifications necessary for a prospective candidate to become a judge. Next, identify the steps that the relevant persons / entities need to take in order to remove a judge from office for disciplinary reasons for each state.
Justify the selection process for the state that you believe has the best system in place. Justify the response.
Use at least three (3) quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Detail the history and organization of the levels of the American court system and the issue of jurisdictional boundaries.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in the criminal court and the judicial process in America.
Write clearly and concisely about the American court system using proper writing mechanics and APA style conventions.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
The State Judicial Selection Process
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Introduction
The jury serves as a significant organ within the functions of a state in preserving and dispensing the rule of law to the citizens and the inhabitants of America. In order to achieve this and function as per defined by the law, judges are required to interpret the law equitably. Judges are also expected to avoid unjustified political influence (Peppers, Giles, & Tainer-Parkins, 2008). Since the judiciary remains a primary component of any state, the process of selecting judges remains a critical factor in any nation. In 1937, this issue was put across by the American Bar association when its house of delegates agreed to the appropriate merit selection of judges.
In spite of the anxiety of the selection of judges, the lawyers and the bar association should not dwell too much on that process. The decisions made by the judiciary at all levels affect each and every citizen. The ideas of citizens should also be put into consideration in the process of choosing judges in spite of the strong believes that the bar association and their leaders should be on the front position in doing so (Peppers, Giles, & Tainer-Parkins, 2008). After the introduction of the government in the United States, the chief executives were put in charge of appointing the judges. When the ideas of the majority started emerging the responsibility of appointing judges was put into the hands of the citizens who began restricting the terms each judge would serve.
After the criticism of the rapidly growing power of political party leaders in the late nineteenth century, many states began electing their judges independently. Due to the discontent with the partisan politics and its influence on the court, there arose the need for a more extensive change in the twentieth century. Albert Kales, the founder of the American Judicature society invented a new approach of the judicial selection in which a state would form a bipartisan nominating committee including lawyers and laypersons (Peppers, Giles, & Tainer-Parkins, 2008). This charge categorized the more qualified candidates without putting into consideration the political ties for selection by the governor. After that, the governor would assign one of the suggested candidates to the working table. This paper therefore seeks to analyze the selection process of the judiciary system in Georgia among other states with the aim of understanding the selection criteria’s of the jury.
The Judicial Selection of Georgia
The selection of court judges vary widely from state to state and can be categorized into five strategies; nonpartisan, legislative appointment, merit selection, partisan election and executive appointment. Some states prefer using more than one method of appointing judges which differ depending on the court level or the geographical area. If a similar selection method is used in the selection, the process in practice is different. The procedures used to verify whether judges will maintain their seats and their duration in the office is also different in each state (Pfander, the Chief Justice, 2004).
The state of Georgia has a judicial system that is comprised of the Supreme Court, the superior court and ...
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