Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (09/10/13).

09/10/2013

The judge failed to follow the law and demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law when she: 1) became involved in a church dispute over which she had no jurisdiction; 2) granted a writ of re-entry in a case in which the parties were not in a landlord-tenant relationship; 3) denied a litigant's right to be heard at the hearing; and 4) denied the litigant's right to appeal the order granting the writ of re-entry and/or advised the litigant that a writ of re-entry was not an appealable order. [Violation of Canons 2A, 3B(2) and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (09/10/13).