Matter of Marquardt

CLABORNE, Judge,

specially concurring:

I write not because the majority’s construction of our constitution is wrong, for it is not. Nor do I write because I feel that the result in this case is not correct, for it is. I write because the dissent in this case portrays our result as somehow lowering the standard by which judges must live.

The dissent somehow concludes that Judge Marquardt was convicted of a felony. In fact, he was convicted of an offense which is a simple misdemeanor in Texas, and which may be designated a felony in Arizona. The dissent also attributes some sinister motive to the…