Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of JP (6/12/17)

06/12/2017

The judge improperly allowed a relationship to influence his judicial conduct when he magistrated an acquaintance after business hours, who had been to the judge’s home “multiple times” and whom the judge had known for many years.  [Violation of Canons 2A, 2B, 3B(1) and 3B(5) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.]  Private Admonition and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace.  06/12/17.