A mistrial was declared Monday in the trial against a California Superior Court judge accused of killing his wife after an Orange County jury failed to reach a verdict in the case.

A mistrial has been declared in the case of Southern California Judge Jeffrey Ferguson who was accused of fatally shooting his wife in 2023 after more than a week of deliberations. A Los Angeles Superior Court made the ruling Monday when one of the twelve jurors did not find that Ferguson was guilty of murdering his wife,

The case of a Southern California judge charged with murder in his wife's fatal shooting has ended in a mistrial.