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Like the Bar Association, the new committee does not have the power to take action against offending judges but merely advises the Supreme Judicial Court, Rodgers said.
In the past, complaints were handled more informally by a Massachusetts Bar Association committee, Allan D. Rodgers, chairman of the new review committee and director of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, said yesterday.
The committee now exists "mainly to screen complaints and most likely will not recommend specific sanctions on judges" against whom complaints are judged to be valid, Rodgers said.
Rodgers said the justices were looking for people with a background that showed an ability to evaluate the judicial system and a high standing in the community because it is important that the committee be considered credible by the citizenry.
"We just played a terrific second half," said Rodgers. "We really looked respectable. We should have even beaten--them."