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Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Art of Getting Paid

Sep. 15, 2022

Panel mulls lengthened statute of limitations on judge misconduct

The issue has come up in the current discipline hearings of Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael Murray who was accused of misconduct years ago, while a prosecutor.

A new committee tasked with reviewing the Commission on Judicial Performance delved into a critical audit of the agency at its meeting on Wednesday.

But much of the discussion instead centered on a quirk in the state’s judicial discipline system not raised in that report. That quirk, a short statute of limitations on judicial discipline, could be central to a case currently before the CJP.

Robert Tembeckjian, who...

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