From 2013 - NOT FOR NOTABLE - just a heads up

The corruption never ends…rumor has it that she is running for DA in same county. She was barred from ever running for judge again, but not from any other elected position.

East Texas judge resigns amid texting probe

She was accused of messaging prosecutor advice from bench

In an agreement with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Coker admits no guilt and the commission stopped short of issuing any findings of misconduct.

Coker wrote in a surprise announcement that she was stepping down from the 258th court that covers Polk, Trinity and San Jacinto Counties.

The agreement lists a litany of serious complaints that attorneys and others had leveled against Coker. They drew the spotlight of the national legal community, questioning everything from her sending as many as 40 clandestine text messages from the bench to help prosecutors in Polk and San Jacinto counties to slipping into the jury room to tell those deliberating how to vote.

Under the agreement Coker signed Saturday, she can never be elected to any judicial post or handle any judicial proceeding as a visiting judge, not even a marriage.

The resignation agreement cites one particular texting incident, disclosed in Houston Chronicle articles, that involved Coker and then-prosecutor Kaycee Jones, who has herself since been elected a 411th district judge.

In a written confession to the Texas Bar Association, Jones has acknowledged receiving a text message from Coker while she was sitting on the bench that were designed to bolster the prosecution's case in a child abuse trial. "I was wrong and I knew better," Jones wrote.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/East-Texas-judge-resigns-amid-texting-probe-4914820.php

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