Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge (3/8/22)

03/08/2022
 
 

The judge allowed the victim in three underlying cases that arose from the same criminal episode to make a victim allocution statement in one of those cases prior to passing sentence in the other t...

Private Admonition of a District Court Judge (3/8/22)

03/08/2022
 
 

The judge appeared in a social media video depicting the judge dancing in the judge's courtroom to a song containing explicit lyrics, as requested by a person who could use that person's social med...

Hon. Etta Mullin

03/04/2022
 Dallas County Criminal Court No. 10, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
 CJC Nos. 20-0511, et. al.,

Public Reprimand

Hon. Clyde Black

02/28/2022
 Justice of the Peace, Pct. 1, Crockett, Houston County, Texas
 CJC No. 20-1032

Public Admonition

Private Order of Additional Education of a District Court Judge (2/28/22)

02/28/2022
 
 

The judge improperly failed to disqualify from presiding over a criminal case in which the State was seeking an adjudication of guilt and revocation of community supervision of the defendant, when ...

Private Admonition of a County Judge (2/24/22)

02/24/2022
 
 

The judge sent a letter, on letterhead that identified the judge and the judge's office, to another judge presiding over a pending divorce proceeding providing a personal character reference for a ...

Hon. Gena Slaughter

02/16/2022
 191st Civil District Court, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
 CJC No. 19-1043

Public Warning

Private Warning of a Former Municipal Court Judge (2/16/22)

02/16/2022
 
 

The judge improperly utilized a bailiff to translate for a Spanish-speaking defendant in a traffic case and held the bailiff in contempt when the judge felt he was not translating properly, and fai...