Original Article Judge in bias case wants documents made public By Gary Grado, Tribune December 25, 2005 A Maricopa County Superior Court judge who accused county prosecutors of racial bias wants secret documents pertaining to a complaint against him by the county attorney to be made public. The complaint stems from the case of Mesa resident Patrick Ivey, 20, who was convicted May 26 of burglary in Paradise Valley. Judge Warren Granville said that the Maricopa County Attorneys Office singled out Ivey, who is poor and black, but ignored others involved in the crime who were either white or affluent. The attorneys office then filed a complaint against Granville with the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct. Granville said in a Dec. 8 letter to the county attorney that it would be in the publics interest to open the complaint. "The public has the right to review the uses of power and discretion exercised by officials from two branches of their government," Granville wrote. Chief assistant county attorney Sally Wolfgang Wells had urged Granville to support the release of the complaint. Opening the complaint would allow the public to judge the merits of it and to "be privy to the complete decision of the commission," Wells wrote. It will be up to the commission whether the complaint and its related documents are made public, said Keith Stott, executive director of the commission. Earlier this month, Granville revealed the contents of the complaint and the judicial commissions response to a Valley weekly newspaper. Wells said Granville not only violated the confidentiality of judicial complaints, but that the statements also "resulted in a broad and incomplete report" of the underlying criminal case that set off the controversy. The news story reported that Granville was cleared of judicial misconduct but was admonished by the commission. Granville could not be reached for comment.