Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (8/12/21)
08/12/2021
The judge failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law, failed to be patient, dignified and courteous towards the constable and/or constable’s office in his precinct, and failed to perform judicial duties without bias or prejudice, when he failed to issue citations for service of process to the constable’s office as requested by litigants. The judge also failed to comply with the law and maintain professional competence in the law, and failed to accord a person having a legal interest in a proceeding before him the right to be heard according to law, when the court failed to properly notice a litigant of the initial trial setting in his case, and later, the judge failed to note a judgment amount and to properly set an appeal bond in the litigant’s case. [Violations of Canons 2A, 3B(2), 3B(4), 3B(5) and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (8/12/21).
