A 74-year-old Orange County Superior Court judge who had been drinking through the day drew his handgun from an ankle holster and fatally shot his wife in their Anaheim Hills home following an extended argument, a prosecutor told jurors Monday, but the defendant’s attorney said the shooting was an accident owing to a bum shoulder.
Last month, a separate jury deadlocked at 11-1 in favor of conviction on a second-degree murder charge in the case against Jeffrey Ferguson, who is accused in the Aug. 3, 2023, of killing his 65-year-old wife, Sheryl.
Attorneys delivered opening statements in FErguson’s retrial on Monday, offering to prove much of the same evidence as the first trial…