. >> reporter: lawyers for the man charged with kidnapping audrey creighton attacked the judge's credibility. the defense subpoenaed the judge's cell phone and emails saying they're evidence the judge had drugs in her home, is lie, and trying to get another witness to lie at the upcoming trial next month. but at today's court hearing the defense was denied access to most of the items in the subpoena. in this trial, are you trying to put judge creighton on trial? >> we don't have any comment on it. thank you very much. >> reporter: judge creighton is 53 sendi24. when he was 19 creighton was a public defender and represented him in a criminal case. the two became live-in lovers. last may 19th the judge reported to police that she'd returned home from work and found sending in a drunking rage. she says he beat her, dragged her to her car, demanding she be driven. she got away. he drove off in her car hitting another car head on treated for injuries in a hospital and fled to miami, florida, where he was later arrested. we asked a rockville lawyer with no connection to the case how far the defens