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Castro, Wiseman, and Inos up for retention election
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Posted on Mar 06 2012
By Ferdie de la Torre
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Associate justice Alexandro C. Castro and associate judges David A. Wiseman and Perry B. Inos will be up for retention election this November.
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’s or judge’s initial term of office.
Saipan Tribune learned that Castro’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.
Castro, Wiseman, and Inos have not disclosed yet if they plan to submit to the retention election.
Castro ascended to the CNMI Supreme Court bench on July 9, 1998. In 2005, voters retained Castro to the high tribunal’s bench.
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.
Inos ascended to the Superior Court bench in September 2008.
In 2003, Juan T. Lizama was the first judge in the CNMI to be retained on the bench.
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.
Timothy H. Bellas and Virginia Onerheim-Sablan are the only former judges who were not retained.
