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Utah Chief Justice urges investment in treatment, technology and judges in State of the Judiciary
Summary
Chief Justice Matthew D. Duran told the Utah House the 1985 judicial‑article reforms made the state a national model, urged funding for treatment programs under Justice Reinvestment, asked lawmakers to create two judgeships and supported a recommended judicial pay increase.
Chief Justice Matthew D. Duran delivered the annual State of the Judiciary to the Utah House, praising the 1985 revisions to the state’s judicial article and urging lawmakers to bolster treatment capacity, add judges where caseloads have risen and approve recommended judicial compensation increases.
Duran thanked the legislature for the revised judicial article — adopted in 1984 and effective July 1, 1985 — and said the system it created has produced a uniformly high‑quality judiciary. "It created a system for the selection of judges that excises politics from the process and ensures that Utah's judges are picked based exclusively on merit," he said, citing the nonpartisan nominating commission, governor’s nomination from a certified list and senate confirmation.
Why it matters: Duran argued that a stable, nonpartisan judiciary is essential both to protecting individual rights and to providing…
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