Jon Eisenberg filed a complaint against Presiding Justice Vance Raye and Associate Justices William Murray Jr. and Cole Blease, pointing to more than 100 cases that the jurists had allegedly taken up to seven years to finalize. Photo by Hillary Jones-Mixon. California Appellate Attorney: 3rd District Court Investigated for Case Delays Before Complaint
Retired appellate attorney Jon Eisenberg said the Commission on Judicial Performance has not spoken to him for months about his complaint against three Third District Court of Appeals justices.
May 04, 2022 at 06:02 PM
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California's judicial watchdog agency was investigating "decisional delay" in the Third District Court of Appeal even before a retired appellate attorney filed a complaint last year accusing three justices of taking too long to dispose of cases there, newly released documents reveal.
In an April 6 letter to a committee reviewing the Commission on Judicial Performance, Jon Eisenberg said an unidentified investigator with the agency told him on Feb. 8, 2021, that the agency had been looking into Third District practices "but had failed to detect the decisions my complaint described."
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