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Discipline

Jun. 29, 2013

Discipline panel considers whether to punish judge for interfering in son's case

A panel for the Commission on Judicial Performance on Wednesday weighed whether they should publicly discipline Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce C. Mills for interfering with his son's tobacco-possession case.

By Saul Sugarman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A panel for the Commission on Judicial Performance on Wednesday weighed whether they should publicly discipline Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce C. Mills for interfering with his son's tobacco-possession case. Mills has been disciplined twice before. In 2001, the commission privately admonished him for ignoring a litigant's request for an attorney and for trying to persuade him to plead guilty. Mills was publicly admo...

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