{"id":46689,"date":"2025-07-07T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46689\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:01:11","slug":"dallas-county-judge-gets-2nd-sanction-for-jailing-man-revoking-bond-despite-recusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46689\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas County judge gets 2nd sanction for jailing man, revoking bond despite recusal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas County Judge Amber Givens was again sanctioned by the state\u2019s judicial authority for jailing a man and revoking another\u2019s bond despite being recused from their cases, according to the disciplinary document made public Monday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The State Commission on Judicial Conduct<\/a> said Givens lacked the authority to intervene in both cases, the admonishment issued June 23 reads. This is the second sanction against Givens, who was reprimanded<\/a> by the oversight body for allegedly ordering her court coordinator to impersonate her during an online hearing<\/a>. <\/p>\n

An admonishment is the lightest public sanction issued by the commission, while a reprimand is the most severe.<\/p>\n

Related:Dallas judge sanctioned over allegations she made staff impersonate her at online hearing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Givens\u2019 lawyer, Russell Wilson, reiterated a previous statement to The Dallas Morning News when reached Monday: She \u201cdisagrees with the commission\u2019s conclusions\u201d and has called the complaints a \u201cpolitically motivated attack.\u201d <\/p>\n

Attorneys filed a motion to remove Givens from a man\u2019s drug case in July 2022 and a presiding judge was assigned in December that year. The man participated in Givens\u2019 \u201cEmpowerment Program,\u201d a rehabilitative program about how to successfully complete probation, according to Givens\u2019 campaign website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In fall 2023 \u2014 roughly nine months after a new judge was appointed \u2014 court staff informed Givens the man disrupted a program meeting and the judge ordered him to appear before her, the admonishment says. Givens ultimately ordered him to serve 60 days in the Dallas County jail. <\/p>\n

The man spent six days in jail before the presiding judge ordered he be released. <\/p>\n

Related:119 trials in a day: Attorneys scramble as Dallas judge clogs docket with criminal cases<\/a><\/p>\n

Givens voluntarily recused herself from an evading arrest case in August 2022. Again, the case was reassigned to a presiding judge. <\/p>\n

According to the admonishment, Givens believed a July 6, 2023, hearing was in her court, but it was before the presiding judge and the accused man was not required to appear. When neither the man nor his lawyers showed up to Givens\u2019 court, she held the man\u2019s bond as insufficient. <\/p>\n

In testimony before the state judicial commission, Givens blamed the county\u2019s courts software system because the online docket did not reflect that she was recused from the cases, the admonishment says. <\/p>\n

Givens \u2014 whose term ends in 2026 \u2014 was disciplined last month over allegations by Dallas\u2019 defense lawyer group that a court coordinator illegally acted as the judge during a virtual bail hearing that year. <\/p>\n

Givens\u2019 conduct \u201cis clearly inconsistent with the proper performance of her judicial duties and cast public discredit upon the judiciary,\u201d the reprimand issued June 23 reads<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas County Judge Amber Givens was again sanctioned by the state\u2019s judicial authority for jailing a man and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,356,1596,7290,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-46689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114813500465532498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}