Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodriguez of Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

 

8/14/2022

Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodriguez

c/o Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

P.O. Box 9022392

San Juan, PR  00902-2392

Dear Chief Justice Rodriguez,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and criminal justice reform. In these subjects, I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others. Chief Justice Rodriguez, the main reason I’m writing you a letter to explain how I find your work when you served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and currently as Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Puerto Rico to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico from 2014-2016, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and expressing the need to make civil rights stronger in order to help protect minorities, women, and people with disabilities from being discriminated. On people with disabilities’ rights issues, I like on how you express the need for more people who have expertise in people with disabilities’ rights including people with disabilities’ rights law to be in the judicial system or be elected in the courts, emphasize the need for social workers to work with law enforcement to help reduce situation with people who struggle with mental health, and more better reforms on people who have mental health or with a disability to get better access to social security disability benefits.  Supporting the need for drug treatment programs to help drug-users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, advocating for the need for more resources to help victims of domestic violence or victims of crime get help on dealing with their trauma, and strongly express the importance for more funds for DNA testing including forensic science to help solve evidence efficiently while reduce sending an innocent person to jail is common sense for criminal justice reform. Also on criminal justice reform, I like on how you express the need for mental health court to help people with mental illness to get treatment and advocate for the importance of community services to help non-violent offenders including non violent juveniles to rehabilitate so they won’t re-offend. Also in your role as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, I like on how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights and criminal justice reform. Another thing that I like about your work as Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Puerto Rico is how you advocate for the need to reduce racial profiling in the criminal justice system to help protect minorities including immigrants from being oppressed, strongly advocate with support the need for better voter protection laws to help protect voters including minorities along with people with disabilities from losing their right to vote, expand on ethics reform to reduce corruption including judicial misconduct, and support protecting civil liberties like the fourth amendment to help protect people from unreasonable searches. 

Chief Justice Rodriguez, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  I also enjoyed reading some of your articles about the need for better improvements in social work, a strong need for better protection for people with disabilities’ rights, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and heavily protect civil liberties from being violated. Your role as former Associate Justice of Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and as current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico gives me motivation to continue to learn history including social justice. My future goal is to work in these areas to help to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others. 

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference for society. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights, advocate with support criminal justice reform, and many others. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability and continue to learn history including social justice.  I was wondering if you could share with me on what it is like serving on the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to advocate for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick