[Jeff Higgins]

Whatever happened in this case? It's been since last July; have the four people responsible been tried yet?

I have always wondered why our judges are not more visible, and more accountable, to the people. Here in Washington, we vote on them with no information whatsoever to go on. We have been told they need to remain insulated from the vagaries of public opinion, so that their sentencing practices are not swayed by a desire to get re-elected. So why do we vote on them in the first place? The right to vote for them implies the right to know their records as judges, yet we don't get to see those records.