SANTA ANA – A Corona del Mar attorney pleaded guilty Thursday and was ordered to perform eight hours of community service for a domestic dispute with his girlfriend.

Jerry Raymond Schaffer pleaded guilty to violating a protective-stay away order and making annoying telephone calls, both misdemeanors. He was ordered to take a batterer’s treatment program and was placed on three years of informal probation.

Schaffer is ineligible to practice law because of a suspension for failing to pay fees, according to The State Bar of California.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick Donahue in May substituted in an attorney from the Orange County Public Defender’s Office for Schaffer, a private defense attorney, in the case for Zachary Pickrell, 21, who is charged with the fatal shooting of a f

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