SACRAMENTO — A Sacramento judge was at times discourteous and lost his impartiality in a messy divorce case, but he did not engage in willful misconduct, a three-judge disciplinary panel held this week.
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien violated various judicial canons when he was curt with an attorney during a 2006 divorce trial and later abruptly ended that same trial while the attorney was examining a witness, the panel of special masters said in a 147-page report. And he improperly “jumped into the fray” when he sent potentially damaging documents to one of the litigant’s employers — without notifying counsel in the case — the panel said.
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