A Las Vegas judge testified at a Thursday hearing and defended her actions in a case that has put her under the scrutiny of the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline.

An April filing from an attorney for the commission accused District Judge Erika Ballou of defying the Nevada Supreme Court and violating the Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct.

Commission Special Counsel Thomas Bradley wrote that the judge ordered the release of a prisoner named Mia Christman and when the Nevada Supreme Court reversed Ballou on appeal, failed to order that Christman be taken into custody.

Ballou also issued orders while a motion to recuse her was pending, which another judge found to be a violation of the law, the filing said.

Now, Ballou and Tom Pitaro, her attorney, have laid out a counter-narrative.

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