Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (06/15/07)

The judge attempted to mediate a dispute between two parties prior to criminal charges being filed in the case, issued a "cash only" bond that prevented one of the parties from being released from jail for 25 days, and dismissed a traffic ticket without a motion from the prosecutor and based on an improper ex parte communication with a family she knew from church. [Violation of Canons 2A, 2B and 3B(2) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (06/15/07)