Discipline
Jul. 13, 2012
Judge admonished for handling of contempt proceedings
An Alameda County Superior Court Judge was admonished Wednesday for inappropriately forcing an attorney to remain in court for more than an hour while the judge decided if the lawyer should be held in contempt.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
An Alameda County Superior Court Judge was admonished Wednesday by a state judicial watchdog agency for forcing an attorney to remain in court for more than an hour while the judge decided if the lawyer should be held in contempt.
In October 2010, Judge Morris D. Jacobson got into a testy exchange with attorney Anne C. Beles, of Oakland firm Beles & Beles, who said she would not be prepared to de...
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