FY 2000-Present Summaries of Private Sanctions

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 th...

Private Order of Additional Education of a Municipal Court Judge (5/30/17)

05/30/2017
 
 

The judge failed to comply with the law and failed to maintain professional competence in the law when he entered “cash only” bonds in violation of Article 17.02 of the Texas Code of Criminal Proce...

Private Warning of a Justice of the Peace (2/27/17)

02/27/2017
 
 

The judge falsely represented that his opponent did not vote between 1996 and 2012, when publicly available voting records showed that his opponent voted seven times during that period [Violation o...

Private Admonition of a District Court Judge (1/17/17)

01/17/2017
 
 

The judge failed to exhibit the patience, dignity, and courtesy expected of a judicial officer when the judge raised his voice in anger toward a district attorney. [Violation of Canon 3B(4) of the ...

Private Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace (01/03/17)

01/03/2017
 
 

The judge failed to comply with the law and demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law when he failed to set and conduct an examining trial despite repeated requests by the defendant...

Private Admonition of a District Judge (10/24/16)

10/24/2016
 
 

The judge failed to comply with the law and failed to maintain profession competence in the law by failing to inform an unrepresented child custody litigant facing incarceration for contempt of cou...

Private Warning and OAE of District Judge (09/09/16)

09/09/2016
 
 

The judge failed to comply with the law, demonstrated a lack of professional competence in the law, and gave rise to the appearance that the judge could not be fair, impartial and neutral in the pe...

Justice of the Peace

09/08/2016
 
 

The judge failed to maintain order and decorum in the criminal proceedings before her; failed to treat the defendants she magistrate with patience, dignity, and courtesy; and engaged in willful con...