Aransas County voters recently decided not to return County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams to the bench. This may be in part due to the publicity Adams received two years ago when his daughter released a 2004 videotape depicting Adams striking her.
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct had issued a public warning to Adams on Sept. 6, 2012, concluding that a 2004 videotape depicting Adams striking his daughter “forcefully at least seventeen times with a belt … cast reasonable doubt on his capacity to act impartially as a judge” [See " Jurists Disciplined By State Commission on Judicial Conduct" Texas Lawyer, Sept. 10, 2012, page 1.]
