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Related: About this forumJudge admonished after invoking God in favor of defendant
SAN ANTONIOA Texas judge has received a public warning for asking a jury to keep deliberating because God told him the defendant they convicted was innocent.
Comal County Judge Jack Robison reported himself to the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct after his outburst while presiding over the January 2018 trial of Gloria Romero Perez, who was charged with continuous sex trafficking and the sale or purchase of a child.
Robison told jurors to continue deliberating after they reached a guilty verdict, saying her conviction would be a misuse of justice, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
"The judge later apologized to the jury, and said something to the effect of, 'When God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it,'" the commission's disciplinary report said.
Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/texas/story/2019/mar/07/judge-admonished-after-invoking-god-favor-defendant/768733/
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Do your FUCKING JOB asswipe.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)he should be removed from the bench. The direction this country is taking scares me. We have a totally demented president and a judge, of all things, just as crazy.
czarjak
(11,296 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)people, no matter their position in society, would be put in under mental examination after an outburst like this.