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Judge upholds board decision on Thomas
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Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas
The Associated Press
A judge has upheld the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors' decision to fire County Attorney Andrew Thomas as its attorney of record because of conflicts of interest.
In a ruling released Thursday, Judge Donald Daughton ruled that Thomas had not followed the rules of professional conduct in his dealings with the board, specifically by not allowing the board to investigate whether Thomas had a conflict of interest in representing the board while criminally prosecuting one of its members.
Thomas also had protested the board's right late last year to choose its attorneys without consulting him and to create its own civil litigation unit to supplant Thomas' office in representing the board.
Daughton upheld the right of the board to sidestep Thomas in a perceived conflict.
A spokesman for Thomas said the judgment will be appealed.
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