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vote down this amendment.
DELEGATE CLARKx Any further discussion?
Delegate Mudd*
DELEGATE MUDD; Mr. Chairman, I rise to speak
in support of the Scanlan amendment. This matter was
debated to some extent as the Members of the Committee of
the Whole may recall at the time we considered the recom-
mendation of the Committee on the Judicial Branch.
At that time the Minority report suggested
this amendment or addition to the Judicial article,
"There shall be the right of removal in each case before
the Superior Court and District Court in a manner described
by rule or by law."
That amendment was proposed as I recollect and
rejected. We feel that the identical question is now
presented on the Scanlan amendment.
As indicated by Judge Henderson, the right in
criminal cases is otherwise protected in the Constitution.
The amendment proposed by Delegate Johnson to the Judicial
article did nothing more than to suggest that the right be
nothing more than the right prescribed by law or by rule.