Ex-Alaska Judge’s Misconduct Triggers New Trial in Criminal Case

A federal judge has ordered a new trial in one of Joshua Kindred’s past cases over potential conflicts of interest between the disgraced former Alaska federal judge and a senior prosecutor involved in the case who sent him nude photos.

In a sealed opinion, Judge Marco A. Hernandez, a senior judge visiting the Alaska federal trial court from Oregon, agreed to grant a new trial to an Alaska man convicted of cyberstalking in Kindred’s courtroom, on judicial misconduct grounds, according to his attorney Alexis Howell.

The misconduct stemmed from the involvement of a senior prosecutor who judicial investigators found had ...