Judges and Judiciary,
Discipline
May 3, 2022
Judge rebuts witnesses who said he knew of altered CHP reports
Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael F. Murray said he would never return a call to a reporter he didn’t know, especially on a Sunday at the time his mother-in-law was being treated for leukemia.
A judge facing disciplinary charges that he hid exculpatory evidence when he tried a murder case in 2008 said on the stand Monday that he did not learn about that evidence until 2015, after the case had been remanded for retrial.
The state Commission on Judicial Performance is holding a trial-like formal proceeding to investigate charges that when Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael F. Murray was a deputy district attorney prosecutin...
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