The Commission on Judicial Performance on Tuesday disciplined a Modoc County judge for failing to note on the record his friendship with a lawyer who regularly appeared before him.

Judge David Mason, a 10-year veteran of Modoc County’s two-judge court, was publicly admonished for “overstat[ing] his diligence” in disclosing a “personal and sustained” relationship with attorney Tom Gifford as required by judicial canons.

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