{"id":175,"date":"2006-08-21T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/municipal-judge-melissa-miller-byrnes-disciplined\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T22:26:00","slug":"municipal-judge-melissa-miller-byrnes-disciplined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/municipal-judge-melissa-miller-byrnes-disciplined\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Judge Melissa Miller-Byrnes (disciplined)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Miller-Byrnes%2C%20Melissa.6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Miller-Byrnes%2C%20Melissa.6.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Miller-Byrnes was issued a formal reprimand in 2004 after falsely stating during a radio interview that no complaints had been filed against her with the commission. She was also disciplined in January for calling a city prosecutor a \u201csmart ass\u201d during a 2004 interview with a newspaper reporter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That comment was part of a dispute between the municipal judges and city attorney\u2019s office that exploded in 2004 when the city\u2019s two judges wrote a letter to the Las Cruces Sun-News alleging incompetence by police and prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After the letter and Miller-Byrnes\u2019 separate comment about the prosecutor were published, the city attorney\u2019s office filed a complaint with the commission, which asked the high court to discipline the judges. The court dismissed the complaint related to the letter, but chastised Miller-Byrnes for the \u201csmart ass\u201d comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Key articles:<\/span><br \/>\u2022 Aug. 10: <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/court-city-doesnt-have-to-reimburse.html\" target=\"_blank\">Court: City doesn\u2019t have to reimburse municipal judges for defense of ethical complaint<\/a><br \/>\u2022 Aug. 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/city-judges-wont-be-forced-off.html\" target=\"_blank\">City judges won\u2019t be forced off criminal cases because of lawsuit, Robles rules<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miller-Byrnes was issued a formal reprimand in 2004 after falsely stating during a radio interview that no complaints had been filed against her with the commission. She was also disciplined in January for calling a city prosecutor a \u201csmart ass\u201d during a 2004 interview with a newspaper reporter. That comment was part of a dispute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}