In Re Canales

OPINION

in which Justices DAY, O’NEILL, ROSS, NUCHIA, GUZMAN, and MARION, join. 1

This is an appeal from the recommendation of the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct that Respondent, Terry A. Canales, be removed as Judge of the 79th Judicial District Court of the State of Texas, and further, that he be forever barred from holding judicial office in this State. 2 The Commission found that Respondent, while in his judicial capacity, and at times in his chambers, engaged in inappropriate, unsolicited, sexually suggestive conduct which included sexual assault and battery, i.e., forcefully…