In re Sharp

*832OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

in which Justice BRIDGES and Justice MYERS joined.

Over the course of several hours during the evening of January 17, 2012, Petitioner Honorable James Patrick “Jim” Sharp, Jr., a justice on the First Court of Appeals in Houston, contacted or spoke to three individuals associated with the Brazoria County Juvenile Detention Center, a local District Judge, and a Brazoria County Commissioner in an effort to secure the release of an acquaintance’s daughter, who was being held at the Juvenile Center overnight.1 [Exs. 3, 4, 5, 11: 076, 12: 12-42] In light of Justice Sharp’s…