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Ethics charges against O.C. Judge Kelly MacEachern slated oral arguments for May

By Jason Siegel

Oral arguments on the ethics charges against Orange Superior Judge Kelly MacEachern will be held on May 21, the Metropolitan News-Enterprise reported.

In August 2007, the state Commission on Judicial Performance accused MacEachern of lying in order to get a $200 hotel reimbursement for a 2006 judicial conference in San Diego.

MachEachern e-mailed a county staffer after the conference that she sat in on two classes on different days and should be reimbursed for hotel expenses. Superior Court Judge Nancy Stock had her executive assistant investigate the claim and found it to be false. Stock confronted MachEachern, who admitted that she hadn't attended the classes and withdrew her reimbursement claim.

MacEachern, who was a O.C. deputy district attorney for two decades before joining the court in 2002, testified that she didn't intend to mislead or steal on an expense report in January.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).