Alameda Judge Admonished Over Language and 'Hitting' Lawyer's Hand
The commission's decision does not explain why Judge Morris Jacobson hit the public defender's hand in the act of apologizing at the bench following a sharp exchange.
December 19, 2019 at 04:20 PM
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Updated at 5:12 p.m.
A state judicial disciplinary panel on Thursday admonished an Alameda County judge for hitting an attorney's hand in a 2011 incident with enough "inadvertent" force to leave a mark.
Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson was also chastised by the Commission on Judicial Performance for using "crude and inappropriate" language with a court administrator in 2016 to describe the alleged sexual misconduct of a Texas judge.
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