Feb. 3, 2026
Ferguson accuses judge of bias in murder trial
Disgraced Orange County judge Jeffrey Ferguson, convicted of murdering his wife, says Judge Eleanor Hunter presided over a "fundamentally unfair trial."
A disgraced Orange County Superior Court judge convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife argues on appeal that the trial court violated his constitutional rights by forcing him to go to trial again just 28 days after a hung jury.
Jeffrey M. Ferguson, 74, a former prosecutor who spent nine years on the bench, was convicted in April of killing his wife, Sheryl, inside their Anaheim Hills home on Aug. 3, 2023, and sentenced to 35 years to life. Ferguson main...
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