The State Bar of Arizona's Chief Bar Counsel is permitted to request such a handoff if the office believes it "may be compromised by a specified conflict of interest or may reasonably be questioned." AZ Law has requested more information from the State Bar as to the basis for the request.
The ethics complaints against former Maricopa County Attorney Montgomery and one of his most visible prosecutors were filed on September 3. The attorneys currently representing convicted killer Jodi Arias filed the complaints, parts of which relate to the Arias case.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey named Montgomery as a Supreme Court Justice the following day. Yesterday, Acting Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell confirmed that Martinez has been reassigned from trying homicide cases, due to the ethics complaint.
Brutinel's Order (below) grants the State Bar's Chief Bar Counsel's request and assigns it to the IBC "to provide review and disposition" of the complaints. The Independent Bar Counsel's office was set up by the Supreme Court last year, and it operates from the Commission on Judicial Conduct.
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