Private Admonition of a Municipal Judge. (12/06/06).

12/06/2006
 
 

The judge wrote a letter to the public housing authority, stating that he was a judge and criticizing his neighbor’s behavior. Shortly thereafter, the neighbor’s rental assistance was terminated b...

Private Admonition of a County Court at Law Judge. (10/31/06).

10/31/2006
 
 

The judge made impatient and discourteous comments to a defendant, the defendant’s attorney, and a prosecutor when they appeared in court regarding the defendant’s probation revocation, and did so ...

Private Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (10/31/06).

10/31/2006
 
 

The judge demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law when, after sentencing a student for the offense of failure to attend school, he ordered successive “compliance hearings” over an...

Private Warning of a District Judge (10/21/05)

10/21/2006
 
 

The judge was overheard loudly criticizing a colleague for not recusing himself from a case involving the judge’s child. [Violation of Canon 2B of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warn...

Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Former Justice of the Peace. (10/04/06)

10/04/2006
 
 

The judge failed to timely execute the business of the court by allowing a defendant’s traffic case to remaining pending for over fifteen months without disposition. Further, the judge’s court rec...

Honorable Leonardo Santoya

09/29/2006
 Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Eagle Pass, Maverick County, Texas
 CJC No. 06-0064-JP

Honorable Don Windle

09/21/2006
 County Probate Court, Denton, Denton County, Texas
 CJC Nos. 05-0847-CC and 06-0164-CC

Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a County Judge. (08/31/06)

08/31/2006
 
 

The judge permitted the local county attorney to generate and provide court referral forms to defendants in plea bargain cases, directing them to take domestic violence and other classes, without p...