Private Warning of a Justice of the Peace (10/21/03)

10/21/2003

The judge misused the powers of his judicial office by causing a fictitious notice to a County Commissioner, a critic of how the judge ran his court administratively, leading the Commissioner to believe that he had been charged with a criminal offense and was facing possible arrest. [Violation of Canon 2B of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning of a Justice of the Peace (10/21/03)