Oklahoma Supreme Court chief justice recommends removing judge for texting during a murder trial
- The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court is recommending the removal of District Judge Traci Soderstrom for her inappropriate conduct during a murder trial. Soderstrom was caught on camera texting and scrolling through social media during the trial, exchanging more than 500 texts with her bailiff. Her texts included mocking prosecutors, making inappropriate comments about the prosecutor's genitals, praising the defense attorney, and calling a key prosecution witness a liar.
- Soderstrom's conduct was deemed a gross neglect of duty, gross partiality, and oppression, and she has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of a hearing to determine if she should be removed from the bench.
- The trial involved Khristian Tyler Martzall, who was eventually convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the death of Braxton Danker. Judith Danker, the child's mother, pleaded guilty to enabling child abuse and was a key prosecution witness. Soderstrom called Judith Danker a liar, suggesting that the state targeted Martzall because they couldn't accept that a mother could kill her own child.
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