{"id":24781,"date":"2011-01-05T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=24781"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T22:58:36","slug":"martinez-election-judicial-retirements-lead-to-lawyer-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/martinez-election-judicial-retirements-lead-to-lawyer-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez election, judicial retirements lead to lawyer shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24782\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24782\" title=\"Orlando, Amy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Orlando-Amy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Orlando<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The election of new Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\">Susana Martinez<\/a> and the retirements of two district judges are leading to a shuffle among lawyers in Do\u00f1a Ana County.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez appointed Amy Orlando, formerly the deputy district attorney, to replace her as Do\u00f1a Ana County\u2019s district attorney. Orlando was sworn in on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored to have been appointed by Gov. Martinez to serve as the District Attorney for the 3rd Judicial District,\u201d Orlando was quoted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/ci_16985367\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> as saying. \u201cThroughout my career as a prosecutor, I have worked with Gov. Martinez to put some of the most dangerous criminals behind bars &#8211; including child predators and murderers. Our charge has been to keep our communities safe, protect the most vulnerable among us and deliver justice for victims. This is a high calling, and I\u2019m prepared to continue to deliver results for the people of southern New Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, three other prosecutors who worked for Martinez in the district attorney\u2019s office are among 15 applicants for two district judgeships in Las Cruces.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/ci_17012672\">Sun-News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cChief Deputy District Attorney Susan Riedel, Assistant District Attorney Richard Wellborn (who ran for a judicial vacancy last year) and Deputy District Attorney Jacinto Palomino are among the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther candidates are attorneys Marci E. Beyer, Keith S. Burn, Rosanne Camu-ez, Randy M. Castellano, Frank N. Chavez, John P. Cosentino, Richard M. Jacquez, William M. Kinsella Jr., Francisco M. Ortiz, Anthony C. Potter, Edith M. Reeves and Daniel Sosa III.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A judicial nominating commission will interview the candidates next week and make recommendations to Martinez, who will appoint two judges to replace Stephen Bridgforth and Jerald A. Valentine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election of new Gov. Susana Martinez and the retirements of two district judges are leading to a shuffle among lawyers in Do\u00f1a Ana County.<\/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":[142,115,161],"class_list":["post-24781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-dona-ana-county","tag-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24781","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=24781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}