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Texas Magistrate Suspended for Verbally Abusing Prisoners
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2003, page 24
Texas Magistrate Suspended For Verbally Abusing Prisoners by Matthew T. Clarke
A Brazoria County, Texas, Justice of the Peace (JP) has been suspended pending the outcome of judicial misconduct proceedings, after he used profanity and racial slurs to verbally abuse prisoners in the Pearland City Jail (the jail).
In April, ...
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