By james art 
Photo from: Chris Conde/Journal-World
District District Prosecutor Douglas Susan Valdez, left, Deputy Prosecutor Joshua Sayden and lawyer Stephen Angermayer are in the photo on Tuesday, December 19, 2023, outside the Kansas courtroom in the Topez, where Valdez attended her discipline. S No cameras were allowed inside the hearing room.
Устните аргументи в дисциплинарния въпрос на бившия окръжен прокурор на окръг Дъглас Сюзан Валдес вече са на докета във Върховния съд в Канзас, който скоро ще определи какво, ако има такова, ще получи след дисциплинарен състав, намерен преди близо година, че е имала, че had had that she had that she had a penalty violated the lawyer’s behavior code.
The arguments are scheduled for 10:30 am on April 1 at the Kansas Judicial Center, 301 SW 10th Ave. in Topeka. The hearing can be considered on the Kansas Supreme Court page on YouTube or in person.
Valdez asked the court to give her the most informal warning after a panel of the Kansas Council on the discipline of lawyers recommended in April 2024 that the Supreme Court denied Valdez for “unaccounted or unscrupulous behavior” to Douglas District District Judge McCabria in 2021, according to the magazine-Nold.
In her request for leniency before the Supreme Court, she largely accused the media coverage of her difficult position and claimed that she had been punished enough.
“Yes, Valdes has already been severely punished in the form of public distrust through the local press,” writes her lawyer Stephen Angermayer.
The Special Prosecutor in the Kimberly Bonifas case objected to Valdez’s request for private or informal punishment, since such punishment would not correspond to the public nature of Valdez’s behavior towards McCabria. Initially, Bonifas asked the discipline panel to suspend Valdez’s Law license for one year.
“The respondent’s behavior was not privately made,” Bonifas wrote in her response to Valdez’s request for leniency, “but more recently she wrote things to the public in news and on the Internet, with unlimited viewing. The injured and those affected must be given the opportunity to consider the published opinion and the corrective discipline of this court. “
At the hearing, each party will have 15 minutes to make its case and the hearing can be extended if there are questions from the judges who will issue a decision on a later date.
Despite the disciplinary matter, Valdez has launched a re -election campaign, but lost a lot in Dakota’s democratic first, who continued to win the general elections.