Judge admonished after invoking God in favor of defendant
SAN ANTONIO—A Texas judge has received a public warning for asking a jury to keep deliberating because God told him the defendant they convicted was innocent.
Comal County Judge Jack Robison reported himself to the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct after his outburst while presiding over the January 2018 trial of Gloria Romero Perez, who was charged with continuous sex trafficking and the sale or purchase of a child.
Robison told jurors to continue deliberating after they reached a guilty verdict, saying her conviction would be a misuse of justice, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
"The judge later apologized to the jury, and said something to the effect of, 'When God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it,'" the commission's disciplinary report said.
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