Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (1/27/10)
01/27/2010
The judge failed to comply with the law by: (a) failing to issue Magistrate's Orders for Emergency Protection in at least two family violence cases involving aggravated assault; (b) issuing multiple, inconsistent orders and instructions for a defendant's release; and (c) purporting to adjudicate a case involving a class A misdemeanor over which the judge lacked subject-matter jurisdiction. The judge further lent the prestige of his office by providing transportation for a defendant whom he had just magistrated. [Violations of Canons 2A, 2B and 4A(1) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct] Private Warning and Order of Additional Education of a Justice of the Peace. (1/27/10)
