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Discipline

Jan. 13, 2012

Ticket-fixing judge ordered removed from the bench

A 26-year veteran Orange County judge was ordered removed from the bench Wednesday by the Commission on Judicial Performance for fixing traffic tickets for friends and family.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A 26-year veteran Orange County judge was ordered removed from the bench Wednesday by the Commission on Judicial Performance for fixing traffic tickets for friends and family.


In a stinging, 28-page opinion, the commission ruled that Judge Richard W. Stanford Jr. "used his judicial power in a manner that gravely tarnished the integrity of the judicial system" by letting a half-dozen f...

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