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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Ind. Courts - "Brief interviews cover a lot of terrain"
Here are quotes from Jon Murray's new entry on his Indianapolis Star blog, Justice Watch:
At the outset of a couple of the 20-minute interviews this morning, the chief justice noted the moxie it takes to sit in the hot seat; he asked the candidates to begin by describing their interest in the position and what they might bring to the court. A few of the nine applicants -- among 34 who will be interviewed today and Wednesday -- seemed nervous, but most exuded confidence. Many spoke off the cuff or from memory, while Court of Appeals Judge Elaine B. Brown began with a 10-minute prepared address outlining initiatives and other ideas for the court. * * *[I]t was clear the members had spent the holiday weekend poring through thousands of pages of applications and writing samples. They had pointed questions targeted at each applicant's experience. They asked Indianapolis attorney Judy Woods about her service on the Presbyterian Church's General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission, a court body that decides administrative and disciplinary matters for the church -- and which, Woods noted, works in a similar manner to an appeals court. They asked Indianapolis attorney Monica Foster about her specialty, death-penalty defense. She said she could approach such cases neutrally if appointed to the Supreme Court. And they asked Zionsville attorney Yasmin Stump about her representation of the state in efforts to acquire land for I-69 southwest of Indianapolis; she said she considered the affected landowners part of "the state," and with a legitimate interest of their own.
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