FY 2000-Present Summaries of Private Sanctions

Private Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Judge. (05/17/10).

05/17/2010
 
 

The judge failed to obtain the mandatory judicial education hours during fiscal year 2009. [Violation of Canons 2A and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Order of Additional Edu...

Private Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (05/17/10)

05/17/2010
 
 

The judge failed to follow the law and failed to maintain professional competence in the law when he (1) granted new trials without requiring a written motion showing good cause, and (2) granted a ...

Private Admonition of a District Judge. (05/17/10)

05/17/2010
 
 

The judge misused the prestige of his judicial office to advance his personal interest by issuing a judicial order to prison officials ordering them to confiscate his personal response to a former ...

Private Admonition of a Justice of the Peace. (04/21/10)

04/21/2010
 
 

The judge, while acting as a magistrate, (a) routinely advised defendants of his opinion that a local towing company was charging excessive fees; (b) directed defendants to file complaints with loc...

Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Judge. (04/01/10)

04/01/2010
 
 

The judge persistently failed to follow the law and demonstrated a pattern of failure to maintain professional competence in the law when he (a) granted deferred disposition to Commercial Driver’s ...

Private Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Judge. (3/30/10)

03/30/2010
 
 

The judge failed to follow the law and failed to maintain professional competence in the law when he denied the first recusal motion on its merits instead of referring the motion to the presiding j...

Private Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (3/10/10)

03/10/2010
 
 

The judge acted improperly in a truancy case when she (a) engaged in various ex parte communications with individuals regarding the merits of the pending case; (b) directed family members to meet i...

Private Admonition of a District Judge. (3/3/10).

03/03/2010
 
 

The judge failed to accord a divorce petitioner the right to be heard when she dismissed his divorce petition for “want of prosecution” on two separate occasions without giving him the opportunity ...