{"id":17381,"date":"2010-05-17T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=17381"},"modified":"2010-05-17T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:23:09","slug":"high-court-asked-to-immediately-suspend-montoya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/high-court-asked-to-immediately-suspend-montoya\/","title":{"rendered":"High court asked to immediately suspend Montoya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16899\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 275px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16899\" title=\"Montoya, Dennis W.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Montoya-Dennis-W..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis W. Montoya<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Because of new complaints of alleged misconduct, the state Supreme Court\u2019s disciplinary board has asked the high court to immediately suspend appeals judge candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denniswmontoya.com\/\">Dennis W. Montoya<\/a> from practicing law, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/1523551state05-15-10.htm\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The board has already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/judicial-candidate-formally-accused-of-misconduct\/\">accused Montoya of misconduct<\/a> including fraud, deceit, lying to the court, having a conflict of interest, failing to adequately represent a client and failing to adequately account for and distinguish client funds from his own \u2013 allegations that stem from a 2008 complaint filed by the Appeals Court judge he\u2019s now trying to unseat in the Democratic primary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votevanzi.com\/\">Linda Vanzi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are now nine other complaints against Montoya, according to the petition for suspension filed Friday. You can read the petition <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Documents\/PetitionForMontoyaSuspension.pdf\">here<\/a>. Get more details on the new complaints from the Journal by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/1523551state05-15-10.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court hasn\u2019t yet acted on the petition, but the charges against Montoya are serious. If he loses his ability to practice law, he\u2019s also not eligible to be a judge.<\/p>\n<p>Montoya\u2019s campaign manager called the new complaints \u201cextraordinary measures\u201d to harm Montoya, the Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>Vanzi has used Montoya\u2019s professional troubles against him in the campaign, first with a mailer that went out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/mailer-highlights-judicial-candidate%E2%80%99s-scandal\/\">a week ago<\/a> and now with a second mailer that you can view <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Documents\/NewVanziMailer.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of new complaints of alleged misconduct, the state Supreme Court\u2019s disciplinary board has asked the high court to immediately suspend appeals judge candidate Dennis W. Montoya from practicing law, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,161],"class_list":["post-17381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}