I write this letter with almost 30 years at the Bar and having tried to conclusion [verdict] a substantial number of jury and courtside judgments. I now have the luxury to speak the truth.
Like the “sheriffs” system was, now taken over by the state as the “marshals,” the judiciary system  of political appointments is fraught with difficulty best solved by having superior court judges elected by the public instead of being appointed.
Judicial appointments (at the state level) remain the last bastion of political patronage. The public is saddled with these appointments, as inferior lawyers, often with no trial experience, are appointed to judge them (the public) due to political expediency or their (the judge to be appointed) political connections.
A new jurist with no trial experience has recently been approved because her Daddy was important in the Democratic party in days of yesterday. The problem is that this is not unusual in the “system.”
The time has come that the Legislature should take politics out of the judiciary by allowing the citizens to directly decide whom is a judge, like many other states, by making them come before the people they judge.
Now, they get appointed politically in a chess trading game between parties. We get a substantial number of inferior judges, and the public at-large suffers as they pick up (direct deposit) their checks every two weeks.
It is time for a change. This paper should investigate what exactly it takes to work the (political) system to become a judge. It is a very complicated political adventure. It is time for legislation to make all Superior Court judges be elected by the public, like many other states do.
Todd R. Bainer
Ansonia