The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court is recommending the removal of a district court judge who exchanged more than 500 texts with her bailiff during a murder trial
The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court is recommending the removal of a lower court judge who was caught on camera scrolling through social media and texting during a murder trial. An investigation by the Oklahoma Supreme Court Council on Judicial Complaints found District Judge Traci Soderstrom exchanged more than 500 texts with her courtroom bailiff during the trial.
Soderstrom also texted a laughing emoji icon to the bailiff, who had “made a crass and demeaning reference to the prosecuting attorneys’ genitals,” Kane wrote. Khristian Tyler Martzall was eventually convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the 2018 death of Braxton Danker, the son of Martzall’s girlfriend, and sentenced to time served.
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Oklahoma Supreme Court chief justice recommends removing judge for texting during a murder trialThe chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court is recommending the removal of a district court judge who exchanged more than 500 texts with her bailiff during a murder trial. Chief Justice John Kane IV wrote Tuesday that an investigation found District Judge Traci Soderstrom mocked prosecutors, laughed at the bailiff's comment about a prosecutors genitals, praised the defense attorney and called the prosecutor's key witness a liar. The petition goes to the Oklahoma Court on the Judiciary, which
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