Discipline
Jul. 7, 2012
Judge faces censure for interfering in wife's traffic ticket proceedings
n Orange County Superior Court judge who asked a court commissioner to make his wife's $300 traffic ticket assessment go away was publicly censured Thursday by the state's judicial watchdog agency.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
An Orange County Superior Court judge who asked a court commissioner to make his wife's $300 traffic ticket assessment go away was publicly censured Thursday by the state's judicial watchdog agency.
Judge Salvador Sarmiento first denied, then admitted he asked Commissioner Carmen Luege for help after his wife was cited in November 2010 for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. <...
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