Salt Lake County sheriff's deputies responded to a domestic violence report at his home in January and seized three guns. They responded to a suicide threat call in February. The most recent call was April 23, when a deputy was called to the home on a suicide attempt.

The victim, identified in the heavily edited sheriff's report as a 58-year-old man, had taken pills and was taken to Cottonwood Hospital in serious condition.

Nancy Volmer, a spokeswoman for the state courts, confirmed two weeks ago that Henriod had been hospitalized in an intensive care unit on a cardiac ward. Henriod returned to the bench May 10 after being cleared for duty by Presiding Judge Sandra Peuler.

On Friday, Volmer said Peuler had required Henriod to submit a letter from his therapist indicating he was mentally able to return to work. Henriod also has agred to ongoing counseling, Volmer said.

The judge, through Volmer, declined further comment. Henriod, who has recently presided over a drug court, was appointed to the bench by Gov. Mike Leavitt in 1994. He was previously in private practice in Salt Lake City.

The Utah Judicial Conduct Commission will not say whether it is investigating

The Sheriff's Office has redacted information, including names, from its reports on the three calls, saying they had been designated as private under the state's records access law. On Friday, The Salt Lake Tribune filed an appeal of that decision.

"Each and very day, judges decide the personal and economic fates of many of us," said the newspaper's attorney, Michael O'Brien. "It is hard to imagine documents more relevant to the public than those that indicate whether or not a judge is fit to competently make these decisions."

There is no requirement under Utah law for judges to self-report medical problems. The conduct commission must wait for a complaint to be filed to begin an investigation, said executive director Colin Winchester.

A Utah Supreme Court ruling last year stripped the commission of its ability to start investigations on its own.

If a complaint is lodged about a judge's health, the commission can request the judge's medical records but cannot require them to be handed over, said Winchester. The commission can order a judge to undergo medical or psychological evaluations, which it can then consider.

The commission, charged with investigating complaints about judges and making discipline recommendations to the Utah Supreme Court, conducts its work in secret. Complaints are not public, and most discipline is meted out as private reprimands.

Utah's constitution allows the commission to recommend a judge for involuntary retirement if they have a disability that "seriously interferes" with their performance, or for conduct that brings their judicial office into disrepute.

In the earlier calls to Henriod's home:

l A deputy arrived shortly before midnight on Jan. 15, after a neighbor called 911 and reported a family fight in progress. A second caller, from the University of Utah, said a woman at the address had called and said her boyfriend was going to kill himself.

Three firearms, one valued at $500 and two valued at $100 each, were seized, but the sheriff's office will not release further information about its handling of the call.

l On Feb. 18, a woman called police about a suicide threat, saying she was concerned that the man she lived there with had left.

She told the responding deputy that in the past, and again that night, he had told her "she may be better off if he were dead."

In his report, the deputy said: "I told [her] suicide threats are not a crime, but assured her we would look for him."

The officer's report said the man later returned home and did not want a follow-up visit from a deputy.

Police have responded to Judge Stephen Henriod's home three times this year:

* April 23: Suicide attempt: A man who had taken pills at the home was taken to Cottonwood Hospital in serious condition.

* Feb. 18: Threat: A woman asked police to find a man feared suicidal.

* Jan. 15: Domestic violence: A neighbor reported a family fight and another caller reported a suicide threat.