San Diego DUI Arrest for Judge David Cooper
San Diego police arrested Yuma County Judge David Cooper on December 4, 2008 after a San Diego Chargers football game for public intoxication at Qualcomm Stadium.
Since then the Yuma County’s Attorney’s Office has filed a motion wanting Judge Cooper to recuse himself from all current and future DUI cases. Prosecutors in the county attorney’s office don’t think that Judge Cooper has the ability to be fair and impartial when rendering verdicts in driving under the influence cases now or in the future, because of his arrest for DUI.
The motion states “Although his personal conduct is troubling, the relationship of that conduct to his ruling is more troubling.”
There are more than 20 cases in which the attorney’s office believes Judge Cooper did not rule fairly. In the motion which was filed in the Yuma Justice Court gives several reasons where it disagrees with the verdict in each of the cases. By recusing himself Judge Cooper can avoid the appearance of impropriety pursuant to judicial rules.
Judge Cooper said that a copy of the motion has been sent to all of the DUI attorneys who have current driving under the influence cases before him, and that they have 10 days to file a response.
So far they were not sure how many responses have been reported. The response period ends on Monday, then the attorney’s office have three days to file a reply. Anytime after that Judge Cooper can make his ruling on the motion.
In June 2001 Judge Cooper had another DUI arrest, which happened before he became a judge.
Yuma County Attorney: Judge should recuse himself from DUI cases YumaSun.com
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