The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct has reprimanded a Dallas County judge for saying in an interview that a 14-year-old girl raped at school “wasn’t the victim she claimed to be.”
State District Judge Jeanine Howard’s “reckless” remark about a sexual assault case she presided over “undermined the public’s confidence in her impartiality and independence by defending her rulings in the press, giving rise to a legitimate concern that she would not be fair or impartial in other sexual assault cases,” the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct wrote earlier this month.
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