Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree says prosecutors in his office will no longer appear before a judge he has accused of years of misconduct, including making inappropriate comments and trying to influence how prosecutors handled criminal cases.
In a July 10 letter to Chief Judge Robert Burns, Dupree asked that District Judge Tony Martinez’s pending criminal cases be reassigned to other judges, saying prosecutors had “reached a point where continued appearances before Judge Martinez are no longer tenable.”
Dupree described what he called “a consistent pattern of conduct that has eroded confidence in his ability to fairly and impartially preside over criminal matters.”…