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• Lincoln County (Oklahoma) District Judge Traci Soderstrom, may already be out of a job, the Associated Press reported.
In July, Soderstrom was captured on a court camera scrolling through social media and texting on her phone for minutes at a time during a trial.
Soderstrom's texts to her bailiff included comments on jurors' and prosecutors' appearances and calling a police officer who was testifying "pretty" and saying, "I could look at him all day."
She was suspended with pay pending a hearing by the Court on the Judiciary.
The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court recommended her removal: "The pattern of conduct demonstrates (Soderstrom's) gross neglect of duty, gross partiality and oppression," he said. [Associated Press, 10/11/2023]