Private Warning of an Appellate Justice (10/29/21)

11/02/2021

The judge violated the prohibitions against testifying voluntarily as a character witness and lent the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of others in doing so, when she voluntarily provided affidavit testimony in a defamation lawsuit characterizing one of the plaintiffs as a “bully” and his behavior towards her as “bullying and extortion.”  [Violation of Canon 2B of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.]  Private Warning of an Appellate Justice.  (10/29/21).