Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree's wife LaVerne McCree takes the stand in his misconduct hearing in Washtenaw County Circuit Court in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.(Photo: Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press)

Earlier Tuesday, McCree's wife, LaVerne McCree, testified for about two hours about her husband's relationship with Mott and listened to details of text messages the two exchanged.

She said she learned about the affair when while putting groceries away, the home phone rang and her husband answered. She picked up and listened to the conversation, according to testimony.

"What do you mean it's over?" she testified she heard an angry female voice say during the conversation Oct. 31. "We're not through."

"We are through," she recalled her husband saying.

On cross examination, Margaret Rynier, associate examiner with the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission, pointed out several text messages sent in November that were exchanged between Wade McCree and Mott, after they had allegedly broken up, indicating they were still in a relationship and still seeing each other.

One sent from Mott to McCree on Nov. 8 said, "I love you." Another sent the next day from McCree's phone to Mott said, "I'll see you soon."

In Monday's testimony, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy testified that McCree contacted her and told her he had been a "bad boy," was involved in a relationship outside his marriage that had ended and that the woman claimed to be pregnant and stalking him, Worthy testified.

Worthy agreed to have her office investigate and asked McCree, whom she has known since college, a question.

"I asked him how he could be so stupid," Worthy recalled. "Because of the previous thing that had happened."

McCree was censured last year after sending a shirtless photo of himself to a Wayne County Sheriff's Office employee and told a reporter there was "no shame in my game."

Detective Timothy Matouk, with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, talked to McCree in November and said he used the phrase "Wade got played" when discussing his situation.

McCree told Matouk that Mott wanted him to give her $10,000 in cash to make their problem go away, he said.

"The 'problem' being that she was pregnant with his child," Matouk recalled.

McCree doubted he was the father and made a comment about being the "king of latex." No charges were filed in connection with the allegations.

Rynier has said McCree's actions brought shame to the bench, shame to the legal profession and violated the code of judicial conduct.

McCree's attorney, Brian Einhorn, said his client should have recused himself before a hearing last August involving Mott's case but said their relationship didn't impact McCree's decisions in the case. It ended up being transferred to another judge in September.

The case is about whether McCree acted appropriately as a judge, not a husband, Einhorn said Monday.

The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission accused McCree of two counts of improper conduct, false report of a felony, improper bench conduct and demeanor and misrepresentations to the commission. Einhorn, said he doesn't think most of those allegations will be supported.

McCree could face censure, suspension or removal from the bench.