Ultra moralistic judge allegedly pulls gun on her domestic partner

Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall was arrested for drunk driving (BAC .18, over twice California's legal limit of of .08). She was also arrested for pulling a gun on her domestic partner of four years, Deidra Dykeman, and threatening to shoot one of Dykeman's dogs. Dykeman says the judge became upset because Dykeman had applied for a restraining order to keep Hall away.

This bit of news wouldn't be worth posting, but the end of the article had a nice twist:

Hall was reelected to her position last year with 86% of the vote after a challenge from Santa Barbara County prosecutor Charles Biely, whose campaign to unseat her collapsed after the discovery of pornography on his workplace computer. Biely resigned from the district attorney's office and officially withdrew as a candidate, but could not get his name off the ballot. At the time, Hall criticized Biely for embarassing the courts, commenting: "It's things like this that makes the public lose faith in the criminal justice system."

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