Judge Justin P. Jiron is likely to continue on the bench in Caledonia and Essex Superior Courts

Judge Justin P. Jiron is likely to continue on the bench in Caledonia and Essex Superior Courts. That’s according to two days of discussions and testimony in front of the joint Judicial Retention Committee at the statehouse.

Against his retention, Essex County Sheriff Trevor Colby told the committee that defendants who are often released – even with multiple arrest warrants and cases against them – often return to crime and hurt people.

Judge Jiron said, “I think I may have a different approach to conditions of release from my background in Chittenden County compared to what may have been the prevailing views in Caledonia and Essex County”.