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For the week three written assignment, students will write a research paper based on the article from the January 31, 2003, Richmond Times Dispatch, Carrico Ending 42 Years On High Court, Virginia’s C

For the week three written assignment, students will write a research paper based on the article from the January 31, 2003, Richmond Times Dispatch, Carrico Ending 42 Years On High Court, Virginia’s Chief Justice Retires After 42 Years of Judicial Service. What are some ethical advantages and disadvantages of an appointed vs. an elected judiciary? What are some ethical advantages of having a mandatory judicial retirement age? Also, see the information related to judicial selection and service posted on Blackboard. The actual text of the document must be at least three pages, but no more than four pages, utilizing ALWD/APA documentation format.

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HEADLINE: Retiring chief justice spent 42 years on high court
BYLINE: By ALAN COOPER, Richmond Times-Dispatch
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RICHMOND, Va. – Harry L. Carrico was a judge before Fve of his
six colleagues on the Virginia Supreme Court were born. The sixth
was barely out of diapers when Carrico became a trial justice in
±airfax County in 1943.
When Carrico was named to the high court, the man who will
succeed him as chief justice, Leroy R. Hassell Sr., was 5 years old.
The number the Virginia State Bar assigns to a newly admitted
lawyer increases with the number of lawyers admitted. Last
week, it went to 49,010. Carrico’s number is 867.
As chief justice since 1981, he has presided over the admission of
almost two-thirds of the lawyers practicing in the state.
Any discussion of the 86-year-old Carrico might understandably
start with longevity, but it moves quickly to vitality and
accomplishment. His 42 years on the Supreme Court, 22 as chief
justice, ended ±riday.
His work ethic would be “almost mythical in proportion but for the
fact that it’s true,” said Justice Donald W. Lemons, the junior
member of the court.
Carrico typically rises at 4:15 a.m. for a bike ride of at least six
miles around his western Henrico County neighborhood. He’s in
his o²ce by 6:45 a.m. and often is the last to leave the Supreme
Court building in the evening.
Until recently, he Rollerbladed on weekends in the commuter
parking lot on Gaskins Road, but the county closed it because of
concern about lawsuits. “I’m going to go back to it,” he said.
“We’ll Fnd a place.”
His reputation for vigor has hardly been diminished by his

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marriage in July 1994 to Lynn Brackenridge, who is more than 40
years younger than he.
By all accounts, it is a remarkably happy union, even though
Brackenridge is almost as energetic as Carrico in her role as
president of Gateway Homes of Greater Richmond Inc. The
organization operates residences and a supported living program
in ChesterFeld County for mentally ill adults.
“They truly love each other,” Lemons said. “They enjoy each
other and they are enjoyable to see together.”
If he had his way, Carrico makes clear, he would continue on the
court. “It’s a very interesting job. There’s something new every
day. I don’t want to quit.”
But a state law that took e±ect after he began his most recent
12-year term requires judges to retire the January after their 70th
birthday. The law allowed judges to complete the terms they were
serving, regardless of their age, and Carrico’s ended Jan. 31.
He will continue as a senior justice, sitting on three-judge panels
that decide whether a case is worth full review and substituting
on the court when a justice is disqualiFed for some reason.
His departure has touched o± banquets and accolades, including
standing ovations from the legislature during Gov. Mark R.
Warner’s State of the Commonwealth address and from the
Supreme Court sta± on his last day on the bench as chief justice.
“I don’t really deserve all this,” Carrico said. “I just did what I
thought I was supposed to do.”
The work includes much more than writing opinions and presiding
over the court when it hears oral arguments or holds conferences
about how the individual cases should be decided.
The chief justice also is the administrative head of the court
system, responsible for budgets, the technology that connects
the four levels of the system and awareness of judicial and legal
trends.

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