Judge Allegedly Threatened Wife

During a conversation with the county’s presiding judge earlier this year, suspended Superior Court Judge Robert C. Bradley discussed his estranged wife’s relationship with another man and remarked that “maybe I ought to blow them both away.”

The statement was made in court chambers two days after Bradley’s second drunk driving arrest in January, according to documents filed by the state Commission on Judicial Performance.

Bradley’s remarks are expected to be part of the evidence presented next week before the state Court of Appeal in Ventura, whose findings could keep the embattled jurist from ever hearing a case again.

On Wednesday, Bradley was released from custody after serving four months in county jail for a string of alcohol-related offenses.

Although scheduled to immediately enter a six-month alcohol treatment program, the 57-year-old jurist was granted a one-week postponement by the sentencing judge so he could attend next week’s hearing.