HARVEY. JEFF: I'M JEFF VAUGHN IT ALSO STREAMING LIVE ON CBS NEWS LOS ANGELES AND OUR TOP STORY ORANGE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE JEFFREY FERGUSON IS FOR YOU TONIGHT AT $1 MILLION BAIL AND HE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT POLICING THAT HIS WIFE WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH INSIDE OF THE TIME HOME. PAT: AND MICHELE GILE WORKERS HORSES LASTLY COMING TO CONFIRM JUDGE IS CONNECTED TO THIS MURDER AND BECOME HIS REPORTER JASMINE VIEL IS THE SAME TONIGHT WITH NEW DEVELOPMENTS. >> THE INVESTIGATORS ARE NOW GONE SOME CARS ARE STILL IN THE DRIVEWAY EVER INVESTIGATORS SAY THIS SHOCKING CRIME HAPPENED ON THURSDAY. JASMINE: AND FATHER WHO IS BEEN AT LOCAL JUDGE HERE SINCE 2015, THAT WILL KNOWN IN LEGAL OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY IS ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS WIFE. HOMICIDE DETECTIVES BOXES OF AMMO, OF GUNS FROM THIS ANAHEIM HILLS HOME ON FRIDAY. IT IS MORE ORANGE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE, JEFFERSON, WAS ARRESTED THE NIGHT BEFORE PROTRUDING KILLING HIS WIFE. >> AND THERE WAS LIKE A BUNCH OF BIG GUNS AND ADVENTURE CRATES OF AMMO. JASMINE: I'M POLICE WERE CALLED HIS HOME AROUND 8:00 P.M. OFFICERS FOUND CHERYL FERGUSON SHOT RESPONSE INSIDE. HAVING DIFFICULTY INTERNALIZING THIS. YES. IT IS NOT JEFF. JASMINE: HE CITIES IT PRINTED AND 72 -YEAR-OLD JOE JUDGE FOR MILITARY SCHOOL ANY CAME TO THEIR HOUSE, TO CHECK ON COUPLE SON GETTING THE NEWS. >> HE POURED HIMSELF AND HE WAS WORK. IN INTO'S JOB AND HE WAS A VERY THOUGHTFUL AND CONSIDERATE GUY. JASMINE: YOU AND SAME ABOUT JEFFRIES IS BACK NOBODY'S FRONTLINE. JASMINE: OTHER FRIENDS WAS COUNTY DEPUTY D.A. FOR THREE DECADES, I RECEIVED A WORDS OF THE TASKFORCES STOP BY THE HOUSE ON FRIDAY BUT NOBODY ANSWERED AND NEIGHBOR SAY THAT THEIR SON WAS SOME COLLEGE, WAS WHEN HE MADE THE 911 CALL. >> OF THE SINUS EMILY COME OUT OF THIS OKAY BECAUSE EXHAUSTED MOM DOUBT SAME TIME. JASMINE: SOME SENIOR LIVES RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET SUBURBS AND WAS OUTSIDE, WHEN POLICE SWARMED TO THE HOME AND HE REFUSED TO GET ON THE GROUND. >> HE WAS SITTING JUST ON HIS WEDGE, JUST SITTING THERE LIKE FOR DOGS ON HIM GREEN DOTS THINK THAT HE WAS UNARMED THINK HE HAD A PHONE AND THE SAND. JASMINE: THE JUDGE SHARED THIS PHOTO OF HIS WIFE ON SOCIAL MEDIA FROM TEN YEARS AGO AND JUST HOURS BEFORE HE WAS ARRESTED ABOUT HER MURDER SHE WAS WORKING FOR THE SANTA BARBARA AND ORANGE COUNTY PROBATION DEPARTMENTS. >> SHE WAS SOFT-SPOKEN, VERY NICE AND I KNOW, JUST HER SON WAS HER PRIDE AND JOY. JASMINE: JOHNSON SENT IS A TRAGEDY ANYTHING JUST TO SEE HOW THIS LAYS OUT IN COURT. >> I DON'T THINK THAT HE WILL I DIDN'T THINK HE COULD TAKE OUT HIS WIFE, YOU'RE NOT IN YOUR RIGHT MIND. JASMINE: THE DAS OFFICE CONFIRMS IT FERGUSON PASSED A BILL WHICH WAS THAT MILLION DOLLARS HOWEVER, WHEN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY DOES NOT YET KNOW WHAT THEY WILL ACTUALLY PROSECUTE THIS CASE SINCE HE WAS A JUDGE PRETTY IS. PAT: AND WE HAVE BEEN DIGGING INTO JUDGE FERGUSON'S PAST WEEK ON THIS FROM 2014 WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR SUPERIOR COURT PRETTY AND OUTLINES FERGUSON'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, THE LAST LINE SAID THAT PUBLIC SAFETY IN CRIME, THE VICTIM'S RIGHTS HAVE BEEN MY TOP PRIORITY UNDER THE PROSECUTOR, IT WILL REMAIN MY TOP PRIORITY IS JUDGE SUE AND STAY
