07/22/09

BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ The Idaho Supreme Court is considering
whether judges must always make their bed in the same counties
where they officially sit on the bench _ and whether one district
judge should be suspended until he actually resides in the same
county as his chambers.

Second District Judge John Bradbury has a home in Nez Perce
County as well as one in Idaho County, where his resident chambers
are. The Idaho Judicial Council has asked that Bradbury be
suspended, arguing that his primary home is in Nez Perce County and
that he doesn't actually live in Idaho County.

But Bradbury's attorney Michael McNichols told the high court
Wednesday that the state law doesn't designate a minimum number of
nights per week that someone must live in a county. Bradbury spends
at least one night a week in Idaho County.

Keith Roark, the judicial council attorney, contends that
Bradbury is violating the residency law.

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