A Las Vegas judge who came under fire for posing for photos in a hot tub with public defenders has now been suspended for at least six months for ignoring two court orders to send a woman convicted of armed robbery back to prison.

The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline released its findings Monday into the actions of Judge Erika Ballou, who twice declined to send Mia Christman, now 31, back to prison to finish out her sentence for armed robbery despite being ordered to do so by the Nevada Supreme Court.

The case centers on a 2013 armed robbery in which Christman and her co-defendant pistol-whipped a senior citizen before leading cops on a chase that injured one person. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a decade behind bars. In 2021, after serving six years, she filed a Writ o

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