A small-town Texas judge was reprimanded by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for continuing to serve on a bank’s board of directors after taking the bench, mishandling criminal defense attorney appointments and telling a local Kiwanis Club meeting that some people “need to be killed.”
Those were just some of the ways in which Eric Clifford ran afoul of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct, according to his public reprimand which was released by the commission on Sept. 15. The reprimand lists 11 incidents in which Clifford violated the code’s canons.
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