Private Admonition of a Municipal Court Judge. (04/28/09)

04/28/2009
 
 

The judge relinquished his judicial duties to officers in the police department and allowed them to accept pleas and collect fines and court costs from criminal defendants arrested on Class C misde...

Honorable Mary D. Valadez

04/27/2009
 Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2, San Diego, Duval County, Texas
 CJC No. 08-0458-JP

Private Warning of a Justice of the Peace. (04/16/09)

04/16/2009
 
 

The judge issued a Writ of Execution pursuant to Rule 632 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, which would have improperly allowed for the execution on personal property in satisfaction of a defa...

Private Admonition of a District Judge. (04/16/09)

04/16/2009
 
 

The judge initiated a communication concerning a contested motion for summary judgment with an attorney who was his former law partner outside the presence of the other parties or their attorneys. ...

Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (04/06/09)

04/06/2009
 
 

The judge failed to follow the law and demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law when she summoned individuals to appear in her court when no criminal complaint had been filed and n...

Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Judge. (04/06/09)

04/06/2009
 
 

The judge failed to follow the law and demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law when he summoned individuals to his court to attempt to mediate a dispute between the individuals wh...

Private Admonition of a Justice of the Peace. (04/06/09)

04/06/2009
 
 

The judge failed to follow the law and maintain competence in the law when she barred an eviction suit party’s non-attorney representative from the courtroom during the eviction proceeding. Furthe...

Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (03/09/09)

03/09/2009
 
 

The judge failed to follow the law and failed to maintain professional competence in the law by: 1) issuing a capias pro fine warrant for a truant’s arrest for violating the terms of deferred dispo...