State high court will let commission consider judge’s discipline
The California Supreme Court refused to intervene Wednesday in a state commission’s disciplinary proceedings against veteran Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Mills, whose lawyer claims the commission has a conflict of interest.
The Commission on Judicial Performance, which has reprimanded Mills three times in the past, filed new allegations against him in October, accusing him of holding an improper private meeting with a prosecutor in a drunken-driving case and, in a second case, trying to deny a defendant good-behavior credits that could reduce his jail term for contempt of court.