JUDGES GONE WILD!

JUDGES are known for their even temperament and dignified bearing — but some of them turn out to be lawless druggies and belligerent bullies who lack a shred of common sense!
Here are some of the most noteworthy cases of judges around the nation who brought shame to the bench and earned infamy for outrageously poor conduct.
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THE STRIP-TEASER
Druggie judge Jack T. Camp Jr. wasn’t satisfied with getting high on the power of the rule of law — so he went on a cocaine-fueled, five-month dalliance with a stripper he met at the Goldrush Showbar in Atlanta, according to an FBI affidavit!
The stripper also happened to be a felon — and during his fling with the floozie, Jack the jerk let her scroll through his government-issued laptop!
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The former U.S. District Court judge had to strip off his robes yet again when he lost his job and was sentenced in 2011 to a month in prison on drug charges.
His own lawyer called Camp, now 80, “a lonely man in the twilight of his life [who] became entangled with a seductive prostitute more than willing to take advantage of his needs and his misguided impulse to be her friend and protector.”
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HOT TUB TROUBLE
Icky Erika Ballou showed real lack of judgment for a judge! The Las Vegas jurist got into hot water when she posted photos of herself kickin’ back in a hot tub with two public defenders — and then blasted on social media about her terrific ta-tas!
The Vegas vixen was slapped with a misconduct violation in January for her unseemly stunt, which reeked of conflict of interest.
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The Clark County, Nev., cuckoo also lewdly captioned the shocking photo by referencing both her and a female tub-mate’s copious casabas, saying the lone male lawyer was “surrounded by great t*ts!”
Once her post became public, bodacious Ballou defended herself by quoting that paradigm of jurisprudence — rapper Cardi B: “Went from makin’ tuna sandwiches to makin’ the news / I started speakin’ my mind and tripled my views!”
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ACCUSED WIFE KILLER
Gun-toting geezer Jeffrey Ferguson — who sent bad guys to the slammer in Southern California’s Orange County Superior Court — fatally shot his spouse, Sheryl, in August 2023 during a boozy blowout, lawmen say.
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According to investigators, Ferguson, 72, made a hand gesture resembling a pistol, and sassy Sheryl, 65, dared her hotheaded hubby to point a “real gun” at her!
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The fuming old fogey later blasted his wife in the chest with a .40-caliber firearm from his ankle holster — in front of their adult son, court records charge.
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The filing also states Ferguson — who had 47 weapons and 26,000 rounds of ammunition in his home — texted his court clerk and bailiff: “I just shot my wife. I won’t be in tomorrow.”
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The senior suspect has pleaded not guilty to murder.
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BURNED BY SUNNY VACAY
Brazen Christian Coomer was removed from the bench last year after Georgia’s State Supreme Court determined the judge took his family on an all-expenses-paid Hawaiian jaunt — courtesy of his election donors!
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Colleagues charge Coomer, 49, who once served in Georgia’s House of Representatives, celebrated his posting to the Court of Appeals in 2018 by raiding his campaign coffers to vacation in the Aloha State and lying after the fact that he was on legislative business!
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The longtime lawyer was also once censured by officials for writing a will for an elderly client and naming himself as the executor — and later revising the document to place his own wife in the position — as well as identifying his children as the senior’s beneficiaries!
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THE BUDDY SYSTEM
Former Colorado state court judge Ryan Kamada, 45, blabbed his way out of a job — and into a year and a day behind bars — by indirectly tipping off an old high school pal that he was the target of a federal drug investigation, lawmen say.
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According to authorities, Kamada was the “on-call judge” in Weld County in 2019 when officers sought a search warrant related to an alleged cocaine traffi...