If you have issues viewing or accessing this file contact us at NCJRS.gov. -~~ -... ~--~~ -, '-J lJ H I '. Ii III' u \ IT , f , . , I . - ., .. - ~J" ~ '-~, '. , .. ';; ~ < ~ , COURT REFORM COURT REFORM IN SEVEN IN STATES SEVEN ST A TES UTAH ': FLORIDA , NEW YORK Lee Powell, Editor "i ! KENTUCKY ", ,I WISCONSIN ,:~ctJ "WASHINGTON j.3U< .....~~ .... ,,'" ~ i CONNECTICUT ; NCJRS ~I~\ ,:1-3-1 Publication R0054 .' .'" 2 111m 1980 I c. ., , ::1-' J \ I I , ~CQUDSITIC:~"';;;i I ,f •• f I ! - . ! ",' .'" _ '.4 __~·'" -, . " T -, /'. <.' • v )1 ,(, :! \ ~ fl I With the exception of the Florida article, these articles are products of the Implementation of Standards of Judicial Administration (lSJA) Project. This project is an effort of the American Bar Association t .Judicial Administration Division with staff support provided by the II (: ·6 National Center for State Courts. ll~'V [,l ~ I: II 1:Ii I \iIi Copyright ©1980 l' American Bar Association I' J' I 74456 U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Justice This document has been reproduced exactly' as received from the person or organization originating it. Points of view or opinions stated in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or pOlicies of the National Institute of Justice. Permission to reproduce this copyrighted material in mi­ crofiche only has been granted by American Bar Association This series has been prepared with support from Grant No. 78-DF­ I AX-0149 and Grant No. 79-DF-AX-0219 awarded by the Law En­ I. f forcement Assistance Administration, United States Department of to the National Criminal Justice Referenpe Service (NCJRS). I Justice. Points of view or opinions stated in these reports are those of the Further reproduction outside of the NCJRS system requires permis­ authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the sion of the copyright owner. United States Department of Justice. IL .' Printed in the United States of America J ~---- - -~- -,,- 1 /1 '01'6 II Committee Members II II Chairman Honorable James J. Richards, Chief Judge II i Superior Court of Lake County, Indiana !j : I Vice-Chairman Richard J. Bartlett, Dean, Albany Law Schoo! !~- Union University, Albany, New York I I dI' Honorable Cameron M. Batjer, Justice if )i Supreme Court of Nevada, Carson City, Nevada II Honorable Jean S. Cooper II HUD Board of Contract Appeals, Washington, DC ! I Honorable James H. Johnston, Judge I',J Hennepin County Municipal Court, Minneapolis, II II Minnesota I: if R. Stanley Lowe, Esquire Casper, Wyoming IIp 11I' Alice L. O'Donnell, Esquire Ii Federal Judic,ial Center, Washington, DC d Honorable Arthur J. Simpson, Jr., Judge II Administrative Office of the Courts, Trenton, New Ii Jersey IIr! • I U Honorable Frederick Woleslagel, Judge i i I! 20th District Court of Kansas, Lyons, Kansas i j U Project Director rl I ' Orm W. Ketcham i \ } i 1 .~ Deputy Project Director I i Victoria S. Cashman I i r!! ~ i ! I i - 0 ! '= J ' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I, i - I I \I" I The Implementation of Standards of Judicial Administration Project ! r,) staff members would like to recognize and thank Douglas C. Dodge, Mae Kuykendall, Ernest S. Zavodnyik, and the Publications Department D of the National Center for State Courts for their valuable contributions to the implementation case history series. iii -,-- l TABLE OF CONTENTS Board of Directors William S. Richardson, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii, President Theodore R. Newman, Jr., Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Vice-President Robert C. Broomfield, Presiding Judge, Superior Court of Maricopa Introduction ........................................ v County, Arizona Lawrence H. Cooke, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of New York Preface ............................................. vii Mercedes F. Deiz, Judge, Circuit Court of Oregon Roland J. Faricy, Judge, Ramsey County Municipal Court, St. Paul, l Imp~ent.tion o~ Court Reform in Kentncky Minnesota , WIllIam E. DavIs ................................... Joe R. Greenhill, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas 1 ,Yl./S? I Lawrence W. I' Anson, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia oMt')utional Jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court: Wilfred W. Nuernberger, Judge, Separate Juvenile Court of Lancaster 1980 Reform County, Nebraska ~. Arthur J. England, Jr. , Kaliste J. Saloom, Jr., Judge, City Court of Lafayette, Louisiana Eleanor Mitchell Hunter Joseph R. Weisberger, Justice, Supreme Court of Rhode Island Richard C. Williams, Jr ............ ! •••••••••••••••••• 4114~JS8 Robert A. Wenke, Judge, Superior Court, Los Angeles, California r-rl'.. \ stru"ttural Change and Its Implementation in the Connecticut ;i Court System Council of State Court Reprt!sentatives Anthony B. Fisser .................................. Arthur J. England, Jr., Chief Justice, Slllpreme Court of Florida, ",""'--' v'\ Chairman \ Judicial Reform in Wisconsin: Some More Lessons for Reformers B. Don Barnes, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Vice-Chairman .... Robert J. Martineau ................' ......... , ...... r'~ \ C~ Reform: The New York Experience \' fJ L.. Frederick Miller ............................. , ...... 105 7"1 / (,£ t Staff r-- lfeadquarters Office, Williamsburg, Virginia VrnPlementation Strategies to Obtain a New Court System in Utah Edward B. McConnell, Director L Thornley K. Swan .................................. Keith L. Bumsted, Deputy Director for Administration Geoffrey W. Peters, Deputy Director for Programs o r ~hington State Court Reform .Tohn M. Greacen, Deputy Director Designate for Programs Phillip B. Winberry ................................. Lynn A. Jensen, Associate Director for Programs Lynford E. Kautz, Associate Director for Development and Public Affairs Joel Zimmerman, Associate Director for Research and Development Regional Offices Francis L. Bremson, Director, North Central, St. Paul, Minnesota Samuel D. Conti, Director, Northeastern, North Andover, .. ' Massachusetts o James R. James, Director, Southern, Atlanta, Georgia Lynn A. Jensen, Acting Director, Mid-Atlantic, Williamsburg, Virginia Larry L. Sipes, Director, Western, San Francisco, California iv v -r' --.--- INTRODUCTION PREFACE , ! The National Center.for State Courts is pleased to co.operate with the American Bar Association's Committee on In:ple~entatlO~ of Standards Beginning in 1975, the American Bar Association Committee on of Judicial Administration (ISJA) in the publIcatIon of thIS book, Court Implementation of Standards of Judicial Administration has conducted Reform in Seven States. .... a comprehensive project to urge consideration of the ABA Standards of The National Center is a private, nonprofIt organIzatIon dedIcated to judicial Administration, the first of which, Court Organization, was adopted in 1974, followed by Trial Courts in 1976 and Appellate Courts the improvement of justice at the state and local leve.ls, and. to. t~e in 1977. modernization of court operations. It acts as a focal POInt for JU~ICIal ,0 reform. By providing staff to the ISJA Project Com~ittee, the NatIon~1 Many states are changing to unified trial courts, consolidated ad­ Center serves as a catalyst for setting and implem~n.tmg standar~s of_faIr ministrative structure, judicial merit selection, judicial discipline and expeditious judicial administration. Such.a JOInt effort to Implove commissions, and unified state budgeting. The progress in reforming and the effectiveness of America's judicial system IS an ex~ell~nt example of improving the court systems in some states has led to increased attention one way in which the National Center seeks to acco~phsh It~ mandate. to the problems in others. The public, the legislatures, and the executive The National Center hopes that this volume s narratI~e of. co~rt branches of government are increasingly receptive to fundamental reform strategies used in seven states will assist other states In aChIeVIng reorganization of the state judicial systems, similar successes. The first project commissioned by the Committee was the Model .~) , Judicial Article adopted in 1978. This was followed by the preparation of Edward B. McConnell, Director state profiles for all 50 states, comparing their present Court systems with National Center for State Courts the Standards. During the third phase of the project, the Committee commissioned six descriptions of Standards implementation efforts in six states: Connecticut, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. The Florida article, which describes recent court reform activity in that state, is a welcome addition to the series. Each article is written by a leading participant in a state reform effort. The papers highlight the reasons particular reforms were chosen, how the goals were modified over time, and the specific reform methods undertaken. The articles describe both successful and unsuccessful reform attempts. Writings on the state of the art of Court unification and the general theory of implementing change have existed for some time. These histories, written from an insider's view, will supplement Court reform literature. James J. Richards, Chairman Implementation of Standards of Judicial Admihistration Project Committee vi vii - __ ~----- -~, ...o--~-- __- ..----------~---~--.------~----.------.~"--~~-- 74457 r KENTUCKY IMPLEMENTATION OF COURT REFORM IN KENTUCKY William E. Davis Laws and Institutions must change to keep pace with the progress of the human mind. -Thomas Jefferson Court reform has been the largest change in Kentucky's