Cary Ichter is to be commended for his thoughts on a self-funding judiciary “A self-funding judiciary,” May 28. However, two of his four planks-restitution by criminal defendants and a “tax” on judgment collections-present constitutional problems to the extent they are tied to judges’ salaries and operations.
Currently, filing fees in civil cases and assessments in criminal cases go to fund law libraries, retirement funds, victim funds and sundry other good causes. But a judge’s ruling in any particular case has no impact on that judge’s salary. Under Ichter’s proposal, the opposite may be true when judges have to raise their own salaries and operational costs.
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