MARTINEZ – A five-times disciplined Contra Costa County judge has jailed the founder of a group that was the leading lobbyist for a recently announced audit of the state’s commission that disciplines California judges, an incarceration that activists say appears retaliatory.
“This is a very punitive sentence,” Kathleen Russell, the executive director of the Center for Judicial Excellence, another group that pushed for the audit, said in a Northern California Record telephone interview. [Read Full Article]