The indictment against former judge Margaret Murphy was exceptional for a number of reasons, growing out of an activist push to empower grand juries.
Retired judge Margaret Murphy listens during oral arguments at her felony perjury hearing at the Nesbett Courthouse on Monday morning, Jan. 8, 2023 in Anchorage. was a decisive victory for former judge Margaret Murphy and a blow to conservative legal activists who have led a longstanding and unorthodox campaign against the Alaska Court System.
Murphy — who was a district court judge in Homer when she retired in 2019 — was the magistrate judge who presided over Haeg’s original case. He went on to allege that Murphy and law enforcement conspired against him, an argument that he lost in a subsequent appeal.for and against dismissing the perjury charge from Murphy’s attorneys and the Alaska Department of Law.
“Because there was not a quorum, the indictment is invalid,” Matthews wrote in his decision, issued Tuesday. David Haeg gives an interview to a political blogger outside the Nesbett Courthouse on Monday morning, Jan. 8, 2023 in Anchorage. Haeg and his supporters gathered ahead of a hearing for retired judge Margaret Murphy, who was indicted last April by a grand jury and charged with a single count of felony perjury. The grand jury was influenced by activists affiliated with Haeg, a Kenai man who has long alleged corruption in the state’s judiciary.
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