This Texas judge was caught texting advice to prosecutors. Isn’t that thoughtful?
Third generation Texas judge Elizabeth E. Coker has resigned just ahead of being investigated for misconduct; she admits that she texted instructions to prosecutors in order to help them convict the defendants whose cases she heard. She also is accused of other indiscretions, including meeting with jurors and attempting to influence them to convict defendants. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct suggests that she lied to them as well, perjuring herself. She’s out of a job, but apparently will face no criminal or civil sanctions for her crimes; nor will the victims whose trials she perverted be freed.
So if daddy and granddaddy were judges, doesn’t it make sense that they advised her on these little tricks? In any event, this sort of thing explains why Texas has the largest number of wrongly-convicted men on death row.
“…nor will the victims whose trials she perverted be freed…”
But it should be a slam-dunk reason to at least get a new trial, true?
Oh wait – that would only be the case if you lived in a land which adhered to the ‘rule of law’.
Never mind.
If she were caught texting advice to the defense she would be disbarred.