A 74-year-old superior court judge in California was convicted of second-degree murder this week — following a mistrial in March — for murdering his wife in their home after a “drunken argument over money,” with prosecutors saying he confessed to the fatal shooting in a text to his court clerk and bailiff just minutes after the bloodshed.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson was found guilty Tuesday after seven hours of jury deliberations over two days, according to local ABC affiliate KABC .
Prosecutors announced his conviction in a press release and described how Ferguson was arrested in August 2023 after his 22-year-old son, Phillip Ferguson, called 911 and reported that his mother had been shot. Phillip said Ferguson opened fire on his wife of 27 years, Sheryl Ferguson, 65, after she told him, “Why don’t you point a real gun at me?”…