Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge
07/11/2011
The judge willfully and/or persistently violated the law when he: (1) engaged in conduct that favored a relative of a member of the city council; (2) engaged in an undignified, impatient, and discourteous conversation with the mother of a juvenile defendant; and (3) engaged in undignified, impatient, and discourteous treatment of the juvenile including having the juvenile arrested and handcuffed. [Violation of Canons 2B and 3B(4) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge. (07/11/11).