Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (04/15/13).

04/15/2013

The judge failed to follow the law and demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law when he erroneously issued a capias pro fine warrant against a defendant, who subsequently spent 5 days in jail at least in part as a result of the condition laid out in the capias pro fine warrant. [Violation of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (04/15/13).