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November 22, 2009

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Chief Justice Hardesty announces for second term

By Cy Ryan (contact)

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 | 6:23 p.m.

CARSON CITY – Chief Justice Jim Hardesty has announced he will run for a second term to the Nevada Supreme Court.

Hardesty, 60, formerly served as a district judge in Washoe County and was elected to the high court in 2004 to a six-year term. He defeated Cynthia “Dianne” Steel by a 48-31 percent margin.

He said the court has been more efficient with taxpayer money, having returned $2.5 million to the state’s treasury last year.

“And we’re adjudicating more cases in a timely manner,” he said.

Discussion: 1 comment so far…

  1. By JohnDeaux
    11/4/09 at 7:25 p.m.
    Suggest removal

    See if Justice Hardesty can fix this problem:

    The Nevada Supreme Court orders that the trial attorney must do a post-conviction writ of habeas corpus alleging that the trial attorney rendered ineffective assistance of counsel.

    This happens all too often. Do you see the problem?

    The Nevada Supreme Court is ordering the trial attorney to argue that the trial attorney (the same person) was ineffective. And the Nevada Supreme Court has sanctioned an attorney who had the temerity to point this fact out to the Nevada Supreme Court.

    Then, about a year later, when the Nevada Supreme Court figured it out, or what likely happened, a law clerk caught the incongruity of what the Court had ordered, then rescinded the Order to prepare the Writ of Habeas Corpus, but did not rescind the $500.00 sanction to the attorney who objected to having to argue that he was ineffective, which $500.00 having already been paid to the Supreme Court library.

    Oh, the Library. Can Justice Hardesty explain why the justices get paid around $30,000 extra to sit on a library board that, to my knowledge, requires whomever sits on the board to do nothing? I thought I read about this in the paper?

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