Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (06/27/03)

06/27/2003
 
 

The judge berated a law enforcement officer with whom the judge dealt in an official capacity and threatened her with contempt. The judge’s actions lacked the appropriate patience, dignity and cou...

Private Admonition of a Municipal Court Judge (02/28/03)

02/28/2003
 
 

The judge lent the prestige of his judicial office to advance his own private interest by sending a letter to two assistant district attorneys urging the imprisonment of a particular criminal defen...

Private Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (02/14/03)

02/14/2003
 
 

The judge improperly exercised his contempt authority by failing to serve the alleged contemnors with proper legal process, and by failing to provide them with full and unambiguous notification of ...

Honorable Bennie Ochoa, III

12/17/2002
 Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 1, Port Isabel, Cameron County, Texas
 CJC No. 03-0149-JP

Honorable Bennie Ochoa, III

12/17/2002
 Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 1, Port Isabel, Cameron County, Texas
 CJC No. 02-0906-JP

Honorable Bennie Ochoa, III

12/17/2002
 Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 1, Port Isabel, Cameron County, Texas
 CJC Nos. 02-0650-JP and 02-0895-JP

Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (10/29/02)

10/29/2002
 
 

In adjudicating a truancy matter, the judge improperly applied certain provisions of both the Texas Education Code and the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, while failing to comply with other appli...

Honorable Elihu Dodier

10/23/2002
 Associate Municipal Court Judge, Houston, Harris County, Texas
 CJC No. 02-0343-MU