Former assistant attorney general Elizabeth \u201cBetsy\u201d Weintraub is grateful that the CNMI Supreme Court has ruled that she did not commit prosecutorial misconduct but said the findings will not undo the damage caused by online publication of the original orders.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hope is that, in the future, Superior Court judges will consider the serious professional and financial consequences for the attorney before publicly naming them like this,\u201d said Weintraub in an email last Thursday. <\/p>\n
Weintraub, who now lives in the U.S. mainland, said she is very happy with the recent CNMI Supreme Court ruling, especially the high court\u2019s recognition of the serious consequences that this kind of sanction can have on an attorney\u2019s professional reputation.<\/p>\n
The former AAG refers to the CNMI Supreme Court\u2019s ruling last week that overturned Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho\u2019s finding that she committed prosecutorial misconduct during the jury trial of David James Aguon. <\/p>\n
Weintraub said she is grateful for the \u201cexcellent work\u201d of Joseph E. Horey, who served as her private counsel in her appeal to the high court. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an honor for me to serve the people of the CNMI for two years but, unfortunately, my experience there was clouded by publication of two sanction orders, both of which have now been overturned. The appellate process took two years to complete,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The second case refers to Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio\u2019s 2017 order that sanctioned Weintraub by requiring her to pay $500 to a non-profit organization in the CNMI that helpis sexually abused children.<\/p>\n
In that case, Weintraub served as prosecutor in a sexual abuse of a minor case against a retired Army reservist.<\/p>\n
Last January, the CNMI Supreme Court vacated Kim-Tenorio\u2019s order, citing that the judge\u2019s view of the law was \u201cclearly erroneous\u201d as she imposed sanction although she could not, and did not, find that Weintraub had acted in bad faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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