Jurors convicted a Southern California judge of second-degree murder on Tuesday for fatally shooting his wife while the couple argued and watched television at home.

An Orange County Superior Court judge who shot and killed his wife during an argument in 2023 at their Anaheim Hills home was convicted on Tuesday, April 22, of murder.

Jurors rejected Jeffrey Ferguson’s testimony that he accidentally shot his wife, convicting him of second-degree murder on April 22, prosecutors said.