California Judge Clearly Murdered Wife, Prosecutors Argue

The California state judge who shot his wife and texted his staff, “I just lost it. I just shot my wife,” clearly murdered her, a prosecutor told a jury Wednesday, asking them to use common sense.

Judge Jeffrey Ferguson had been licensed to carry a firearm for nearly four decades and instructed his son never to point a gun at something he didn’t “intend to destroy,” prosecutor Seton Hunt said during closing arguments in an Orange County, Calif. courtroom.

Ferguson had drunkenly argued with his wife Sheryl for hours and made a finger-gun gesture at her at dinner, causing ...