SACRAMENTO — A Riverside County judge accused of regularly skipping out of work early will resign and accept a public censure from the Commission on Judicial Performance, according to an agreement announced Wednesday.
Commissioners concluded that Superior Court Judge Christopher Sheldon, who handled juvenile dependency cases in Indio, “routinely” left the courthouse for the day after his calendar concluded — usually before noon. The judge didn’t clear his early exits, going back to early 2007, with superiors and he didn’t volunteer for other work despite the Riverside court’s notorious backlog of cases, the commission said.
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