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Decision on judge's ouster is delayed
NWI Times
Jun 12, 2004
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/state-and-regional/decision-on-judge-s-ouster-is-delayed/article_22b60e64-168e-57c8-a396-6e072fd72539.html
INDIANAPOLIS -- A decision on the fate of Lake Criminal Court Judge Joan Kouros may not come until next week.
A three-judge panel that heard evidence in April that she mismanaged her court was expected to deliver its opinion Friday on whether she should be removed from the bench or otherwise disciplined.
The document did not arrive in the mail at the Indiana Supreme Court before the close of business, said David Remondini, a spokesman for the high court. It is expected early next week.
Kouros was appointed to the office in 1997. Lawyers practicing in her court began complaining in 2000 that she was unable to complete paperwork in a timely fashion.
The Supreme Court staff found a backlog of hundreds of cases awaiting her signature on decisions made months earlier. Her tardiness aggravated overcrowding in the county lockup by preventing inmates from being transferred to a state prison in 2001.
Kouros admitted last fall she has been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, which prevents her from performing routine jobs without excessive deliberation and complex rituals.
Raymond Kickbush, a retired judge from Porter County who filled in for Kouros during a six-month period in which she was suspended from duty last year, testified in April he thought the job was too demanding for Kouros.
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