Judge Judith L. Meyer “engaged in several instances of misconduct” arising from a Long Beach murder case, the Commission on Judicial Performance announced.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has been publicly admonished for writing two letters to Long Beach’s police chief in 2018, including one on behalf of two of the agency’s detectives after a murder case was dismissed, the state’s Commission on Judicial Performance announced Tuesday, April 5.
Nearly a year later, the judge met in her chambers with the two detectives and reviewed excerpts of a transcript that apparently addressed some of the evidentiary issues a deputy public defender had raised and that “seemed to indicate that the detectives had not, in fact, engaged in misconduct,” according to the decision.
The judge’s conduct in meeting with the two detectives and then writing the April 2018 letter on their behalf “gave the appearance that law enforcement had special access to her and were in a special position to influence her conduct and judgment,” and that each of the letters on official court stationery “constituted a misuse of the prestige of judicial office,” according to the decision.
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