On any given evening, Dallas judges, attorneys and their clients can be found eating fine-quality cow meat at The Palm in the city’s historic West End district. And a Dallas county prosecutor want to know exactly what 44th District Judge Carlos Cortez ate or drank at The Palm on Dec. 28, 2013, according to a subpoena filed Jan. 24.
Dallas police arrested Cortez on Dec. 28, 2013 for family violence assault after his girlfriend alleged that he choked her, dragged her by her hair, leaned her over the balcony of his residence and threatened to kill her, according to a Dallas Police Department offense record. But in a motion filed Dec. 30, 2013, Cortez alleges the woman was intoxicated and became violent toward him, and he tried to prevent her from jumping off his balcony.
