RE “Judging the judges: Protect independence” (Op-ed, Dec. 15): I almost fell off my chair when I read Nancy Gertner and Richard A. Gargiulo admonish that judicial independence has become fragile here in the Commonwealth and, even worse, that prosecutorial complaints about the judiciary could result in judges becoming mere agents of prosecutors.

As someone who has spent his career as a prosecutor, the last thing I would want is a judge acting as my agent. I can also honestly say that I have never worried about anything less. Instead, I worry about what the Commission on Judicial Conduct will do in the wake of the Globe’s Spotlight series on jury-waived OUI cases and a special counsel’s subsequent report to the Supreme Judicial Court. What is clear from both is that we have judges — more than just a few — who appear to be in the tank for criminal defendants and their attorneys.