A judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court well known for making controversial remarks while behind the bench, even threatening to have people shot in the courtroom, has been publicly admonished by the state agency tasked with investigating reports of judicial misconduct.

Judge Enrique Monguia, a former L.A. County public defender appointed to the bench in 2014 by then Gov. Jerry Brown, chose not to contest the Commission on Judicial Performance’s public admonishment, a report generally issued in cases of egregious conduct.

The commission’s report, dated Aug. 28, found that Monguia, while presiding over criminal matters at downtown L.A.’s Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, not only threatened gun violence against two attorneys and a retired judge, but also made numerou

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