Discipline
Jun. 24, 2009
Panel: Judge's Actions Not 'Willful Misconduct'
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien was disciplined - but not as harshly as had been recommended - for walking out of a 2006 divorce trial he was overseeing.
By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer A Sacramento judge was "preoccupied" with efficiency rather than a party's constitutional due process rights when he abruptly ended a couple's divorce trial to take a phone call, a judicial disciplinary panel has found. Even so, the group of three judges, or special masters, found that Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien's actions did not rise to the level of willful misconduct, the most serious offense ...
Daily Journal Staff Writer A Sacramento judge was "preoccupied" with efficiency rather than a party's constitutional due process rights when he abruptly ended a couple's divorce trial to take a phone call, a judicial disciplinary panel has found. Even so, the group of three judges, or special masters, found that Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien's actions did not rise to the level of willful misconduct, the most serious offense ...
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