{"id":4338,"date":"2025-02-22T21:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T21:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/son-of-orange-county-judge-accused-of-killing-wife-is-cross-examined-by-defense-in-jury-trial\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T21:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T21:53:03","slug":"son-of-orange-county-judge-accused-of-killing-wife-is-cross-examined-by-defense-in-jury-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/son-of-orange-county-judge-accused-of-killing-wife-is-cross-examined-by-defense-in-jury-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Orange County Judge Accused of Killing Wife Is Cross-Examined by Defense in Jury Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>On the night Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson fatally shot his wife, the couple argued about money during dinner at a restaurant and then continued fighting at home, according to the couple&#8217;s son, who recounted the events leading up to his mother&#8217;s death during testimony Thursday at his father&#8217;s trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Phillip Ferguson, then 22, was the only person with his parents on Aug. 3, 2023, when Judge Ferguson allegedly pulled a .40 Glock pistol from his ankle holster and shot his wife, Sheryl, in the chest, killing the 65-year-old woman. Phillip then called police to the couple&#8217;s Anaheim Hills home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson fatally shot his wife, the couple argued about money during dinner at a restaurant and then continued fighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[334,2156,4782,2299,423,392,4781,4780,3839,342,1174],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-accused","tag-county","tag-crossexamined","tag-defense","tag-judge","tag-jury","tag-killing","tag-orange","tag-son","tag-trial","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}