inside were pictures of susan shernowski, a local district court judge.estigators also discovered that mick had earned $17,000 in legal fees from cases assigned by and presided over by judge susan shernowski. if the two were romantically involved, this was a gross violation of legal ethics. investigators seized the fletcher's home computer and susan's office computer for examination by a forensic computer expert. >> for years and years we've always been willing to look in a filing cabinet for some time of incriminating document. well, people aren't using filing cabinets anymore. they're using computers. >> sergeant duke copied the hard drives from the computers onto a forensic examining computer. sergeant duke found nude photographs of the judge and hundreds of e-mails between her and mick. >> they read as love letters. they appeared to be intimate. they appeared to be lovers. they talked about being together and wanting to be together in the future. >> mick had been corresponding with the judge for 17 months. police also learned that before she died, lea