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By a MetNews Staff Writer
Harvey A. Silberman, who won a seat on the Los Angeles Superior Court through a 2008 election contest and took office Jan. 5, 2009—but was barred from sitting for more than two years while a felony bribery charge was pending against him—is retiring.
He was exonerated by a jury on Aug. 1, 2011.
His last day on the bench in the Pasadena courthouse will be July 16. After using earned vacation days, he will officially retire Sept. 2.
Silberman, then a court commissioner, was elected to a judgeship in 2008 over then-Deputy District Attorney Serena Murillo (who gained election in 2014 and remains on the bench). The indictment of Silbermann and his campaign consultants, Evelyn Jerome Alexander and Alan Randall Steinberg, was unsealed on July 8, 2009, disqualifying him from judicial duties, though he continued to draw a salary.
He was accused of offering Murillo an $80,000 bribe to drop her bid for the seat Silberman had staked out. Alexander and Steinberg pled no contest to a misdemeanor conspiracy and testified against their former client.
In 2012 the Pasadena Bar Association named him family law judge of the year and in 2015, the San Fernando Valley Bar Association named him judge of the year.
Silberman’s law degree is from USC.
The judge did not respond to a request for comment on his reflections and plans.
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