Ticket-fixing judge not entitled to pension
A Santa Clara County judge who was forced off the bench after being convicted of fixing traffic tickets in 2004 is not entitled to a pension, even though his felony conviction was reduced to a misdemeanor and later expunged, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. All that matters under state law is that a jury found William Danser guilty of a crime in the course of his duties that was punishable as a felony, and that higher courts upheld the conviction, said the Third Distict Court of Appeal in Sacramento. A Santa Clara County jury found that Danser, a judge since 1995, had conspired with a friend, Los Gatos police