Prosecutors Seek Ban on Former Ventura Judge
State prosecutors have urged the Commission on Judicial Performance to ban Judge Robert C. Bradley from ever hearing cases, describing his drunk conduct last year as unprecedented.
Bradley, 58, and now retired, was arrested twice for drunk driving and four additional times for alcohol-related probation violations between December 1997 and August 1998.
His arrests and subsequent suspension from the Ventura County Superior Court effectively ended Bradley’s 15-year judicial career. He decided not to seek reelection last fall.
But in a series of briefs filed with the San Francisco-based commission this month, Bradley has asserted his ongoing sobriety and pleaded with commissioners to allow him to return to work as a temporary judge, at which he could earn $407 a day.
Attorneys with the commission’s prosecuting arm have rejected the judge’s argument that censure is the appropriate punishment. In a final brief filed Monday, they argued that Bradley’s conduct is so unprecedented that he should be prohibited from ever working as a jurist.
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