Legal Opinion
In Re Bell
Texas Special Court of Review
Decided February 17, 1995PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LARSEN, Justice.
Judge Betty Brock Bell appeals her public admonition issued by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. Appeal is by trial de novo to a special court of review1 appointed by the Texas Supreme Court.
BACKGROUND
Betty Brock Bell is Justice of the Peace for Precinct Seven, Place One, Harris County, Texas. On November 15, 1993, a man confronted her in the hallway near her courtroom, telling her it was a disgrace for her to be over an hour late to court after lunch, *122leaving all the citizens with business in her court waiting. Judge Bell immediately held the man in direct…
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