{"id":529,"date":"2012-03-06T01:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2012-03-06T01:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:37:12","slug":"castro-wiseman-and-inos-up-for-retention-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/castro-wiseman-and-inos-up-for-retention-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Castro, Wiseman, and Inos up for retention election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Associate justice Alexandro C. Castro and associate judges David A. Wiseman and Perry B. Inos will be up for retention election this November.<\/p>\n<p>Under the CNMI Constitution, the question of whether justices or judges will be retained shall be put to a vote at a general election immediately before the end of that justice&#8217;s or judge&#8217;s initial term of office.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Tribune learned that Castro&#8217;s eight-year term will expire in July 2014. The six-year term for Wiseman and Inos will expire in March 2013 and September 2014 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Castro, Wiseman, and Inos have not disclosed yet if they plan to submit to the retention election.<\/p>\n<p>Castro ascended to the CNMI Supreme Court bench on July 9, 1998. In 2005, voters retained Castro to the high tribunal&#8217;s bench.<\/p>\n<p>Wiseman became an associate judge in the Superior Court in March 2001. In 2005, CNMI voters retained him, making him the first non-indigenous judge to capture a retention poll.<\/p>\n<p>Inos ascended to the Superior Court bench in September 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Juan T. Lizama was the first judge in the CNMI to be retained on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Voters backed the retention of then chief justice Miguel Demapan in 2005, and judges Robert C. Naraja, Ramona V. Manglona, Kenneth Govendo, and associate justice John A. Manglona in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy H. Bellas and Virginia Onerheim-Sablan are the only former judges who were not retained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter Associate justice Alexandro C. Castro and associate judges David&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}