Updated: A judge should be removed from office for exchanging more than 500 texts with a bailiff during a murder trial in which she mocked participant appearances and “displayed gross partiality,” according to a disciplinary petition filed by Oklahoma’s chief justice.
An Oklahoma judge who was caught texting while a mother cried on stand during a toddler's murder trial may now lose her job after an investigation found she was busy ridiculing the prosecutors and calling a key witness a liar.