By Scott Schwebke | OC Register
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge was publicly admonished this week for repeatedly entering the private chambers of other jurists after hours to rifle through their confidential papers and try to access their personal computers.
The California Commission on Judicial Performance said Judge Daviann L. Mitchell, who has been on the bench since 2006, engaged in a “serious breach of the expected trust shared among judicial colleagues and entirely at odds with the behavior expected of judges.”
“Judge Mitchell’s conduct constituted a failure to uphold the integrity and independence of the judiciary and to personally observe high standards of conduct so that the integrity and independence of the judiciary is preserved,” the commission said.
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