A former Orange County Superior Court judge has been convicted of second-degree murder for shooting his 65-year-old wife to death during an argument in their Anaheim Hill home in 2023.
The first trial against 74-year-old Jeffrey Ferguson ended in a mistrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. His second trial ended Tuesday when the jury found him guilty of second-degree murder.
Ferguson sat stoically as his verdict was read. He had served as an Orange County Superior Court Judge since 2015. Before that, he served as a prosecutor in the Orange County District Attorney’s Office beginning in 1983…