30 Sep Judge Booted for Anonymously Revealing Charlize Theron’s Confidential Adoption

Not a great day for now former Arkansas judge Mike Maggio. Apparently, on a sports blog he discussed the 2012 confidential adoption of a baby by superstar Charlize Theron (above). He used the pseudonym “geauxjudge” but was found out. Now the Arkansas Supreme Court confirms he is out of a job. Maggio has accepted responsibility and the permanent termination from judgeship. He didn’t work on the adoption case, but obviously knew about it since it was done in the division of the court where he worked.

The Associated Press says there was no other comment from Maggio or his lawyer. He issued a statement expressing his pride in his service in over 45,000 cases and apologized for the statements he made.

Social media, chat rooms, YouTube, blogging, are all things that might be better avoided if your first name starts with Judge. Or at least be real careful. A fishing blog might be ok. Or that might upset the vegetarian prosecutors, so then again maybe not.