The judge failed to comply with the law and failed to maintain professional competence in the law when she allowed her court staff and city prosecutors to “take” pleas from juvenile defendants in h...
The judge presided over a criminal matter wherein he was the injured party. The judge was disqualified from presiding over the matter and should have arranged to have another judge handle the plea....
Six (6) judges failed to obtain the mandatory judicial education hours during the 2010 academic year. [Violation of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition an...
The judge failed to follow the law and demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law by: (a) failing to issue an adequate show cause order specifying the underlying contemptuous act of ...
The judge forwarded letters of introduction to specific members of the community, which cast doubt on the judge’s ability to act impartially in certain types of cases those members filed in his cou...
The judge exceeded the scope of his authority and failed to comply with the law by jailing an individual, without notice and a hearing, for contempt following a confrontation between the judge and ...
The judge failed to follow the law and maintain professional competence in the law by (1) failing to provide a party with notice of a hearing, and (2) issuing orders in a case over which she had lo...
