Harris County misdemeanor court judge arrested, charged with official oppression

Darrell Jordan, the presiding judge of the Harris County Criminal Courts of Law, talks about a new rule, Local Rule 9.1, that will allow reform the county's current cash bail system, during a press conference at Texas Southern University in Houston, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. The new rule allows qualifying misdemeanor arrestees to be released on a personal bond rather than a cash bond.

Dolcefino was found guilty and sentenced to three days in Harris County Jail, six months of probation and a $500 fine. The video shows Dolcefino attempting to ask Jordan about public corruption complaints and public records requests he made about multiple Houston and Harris County officials. In the video, Jordan, who was holding court hearings over Zoom, told Dolcefino that he couldn’t ask questions, told him to sit down and warned him to stop interrupting proceedings.

Jordan in May was admonished by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct over a separate incident. The commission found that Jordan threatened to charge at least one assistant district attorney with contempt of court for “failing to show him the proper respect” and in October 2018, summoned several prosecutors to his chambers to lecture them about the perceived disrespect he was feeling.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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