https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/29/court-formally-expels-ex-santa-clara-county-sheriff-laurie-smith/

Former longtime Santa Clara County sheriff Laurie Smith was formally removed from office Tuesday by the Superior Court as a result of guilty verdicts in her civil corruption trial reached earlier this month, marking an ignominious end to a nearly half-century tenure with the agency that was marred by controversy and scandal over its the last decade.

The effect of San Mateo County Judge Nancy Fineman’s sentencing is largely symbolic, since Smith resigned Oct. 31 while a jury was in deliberations for the hybrid civil-criminal trial. The verdict carried no punishment beyond removal from office.