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a staff which is constantly available to answer the
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phone every day of the year, or every business day.
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And then the third is the Supreme Court. Now, the
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staff does routine investigations and reports to the
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commission. The commission decides which are important
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enough to be pursued. And many things are handled by
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the commission, but recommendations for actual removal
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come from it to the Supreme Court, which it alone has
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the power to remove. So, there are three.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Getting back to this question
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of term, do you see any particular reason for distinguish
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ing between term of the appellate court and that of the
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trial courts?
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MR. WINTERS: Well, I have often wondered
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about that. I think there is quite a general practice
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to give the appellate court judges longer terms. I do
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not know of any particular basis for it.
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MR. MARTINEAU: My own theory on it is that
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the effect of a judge who turns sour for one reason or
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another during the course of his term is much greater
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in a trial court where he is the only judge who is
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