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Traci Soderstrom was an Oklahoma judge who resigned in February 2024 after accusations emerged that she sent 500 texts disparaging prosecutors and jurors during a murder trial.
Traci Soderstrom, a district judge in Lincoln County, said that the messages sent while she was on the bench during the trial were “inappropriate.”
An Oklahoma judge who was caught scrolling on her phone during a murder trial of a man accused of beating his two-year-old son to death has resigned.
The ouster trial before the Oklahoma Court on the Judiciary was set to begin Monday afternoon. It was expected to last three weeks.
Oklahoma District Judge Traci Soderstrom has agreed to step down from the bench, five months after a video was released showing her sending hundreds of texts that mocked prosecutors and called the mother of a slain 2-year-old boy "liar, liar" during her testimony.