A big part of his job is to help the police department implement a consent decree issued by the Colorado Attorney Generals Office after it found a history of racial bias in the department. If it wasnt a political contribution, then there was no crime because there was no actual bribe. But when it deals with allegations of political contributionsand political contributions is a broad termany money associated with a campaign must be done under section 36.02(a)(4) [of the Texas Penal Code], which requires the prosecution to show direct evidence of an express agreement. It was money well spent. Yet Sandoval had agreed to let Hythiam Inc., the L.A.-based biotech firm behind the drug (which was founded by a former junk bond salesman for Michael Milken), use his courtroom for clinical research trials. Attempts to improve things or to bring your department into compliance with the law will be frowned upon. 1 in overall corruption convictions, followed by California, Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas. As I said, Im a lawyer. Even though Caton was disparaged as a divorce, the race ended up being relatively close. He and Roach were concerned that if Greg Willis became the new DA, hed drop the charges against Wooten. His family had a background in local politics, and he soon discovered that he had a natural affinity for it. That cant be right. John Roach Sr. But since the State Commission on Judicial Conduct never removed her, she technically remained the elected judge on the 380th until the end of December 2012. I was elected president of the local defense bar. Most people who arent lawyers or involved in the justice system go, How can they do that? And I was told that their plan was to have me arrested at the airport with the media present. That for this money, youre going to do X.. If youre doing something to save your own life, you dont have the intent to steal. Or a six-figure settlement. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I didnt know that you can be unknowingly bribed without. They celebrated until 2 in the morning. An expert audit conducted for trial showed that $108,000 of that total was spent by Spencer and his wife on personal expenditures between January and April 2008. Even so, Dave called Wootens office to request signs, which he posted at his office in Collin County. Charged with nine felony counts that included bribery, conspiracy to engage in organized criminal activity, and money laundering, Wooten could be sentenced to anything from five years to life in prison. How dare she, prosecutors were heard saying. Christopher Milner was practicing criminal defense law in Rockwall, but no one has heard from him for a while. At the time, under state law, to determine the members of the grand jury, district court judges had two options. Judge Charles Sandoval resembled John Lithgow playing Winston Churchill in The Crown, only with more hair. As for the military claim, Spencer says the allegation was never substantiated, and the military actually entered into a confidential settlement agreement with him over it. Schulte started as a police officer in McKinney before getting his law license and going into private practice. Her first cases are still fixed in her memory. So she decided to sit out the race and spend the next four years getting ready. And it was the best thing that ever happened in my career. Its a battle scar. The grand jury indictment accused her of conspiring with her media manager, Spencer, as well as a wealthy Park Cities couple that she didnt personally know, Stacy and Dave Cary. In August 2014, a three-member panel of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas affirmed the jurys finding of guilt 2 to 1. They saw only a small piece of it, the rest obscured by evidence withheld by the judge or by the vagaries of criminal trials, where defendants often dont testify in each others cases, and maybe not even their own. Harry White, an assistant attorney general with election law experience, agreed to join the team. Sandoval lost his bench by a larger margin than he initially won it. Especially if you dont even own a dog. Ben Smith, a former ADA from Roachs office, currently sits on the 380th. She was facing not only the loss of her career but also the loss of her family. After serving in the Air Force, Spencer went into the healthcare field, managing a region for a home health company. Just come on out and tell us you did it. So when he saw the report of her exoneration in the Dallas Morning News, his one thought was, Geez, sue the shit out of these people.. It involves parental rights. She paid the campaign bills as she received them from Spencer, and then she used her line of credit to pay off the outstanding balance at the end. They never give it back, Wooten says. Smith County has a long been association with police corruption and misconduct with one local blogger calling it The Corruption . Per capita, Louisiana is the most corrupt state, followed by Mississippi. She managed to raise $79,000 in campaign donations, leaving her with $33,000 in out-of-pocket expenses. In April 2010, the FBI opened an investigation into potential corruption in the DAs office. Of course, those are some of the most populated states in the . She needed to meet her opponent in his own primary, in March. Shed stop proceedings to ask if he needed something, but he would respond that he was just watching.. She was friends with Peter Schulte, a local criminal defense attorney and former cop, so she gave him a call. Judge of the 380th | 2009 2011, Harry White She remembers the woman charged with felony theft for an unpaid bill with a furniture rental company. In September 2007, Dave met with Royce Poinsett, the general counsel for the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. The only saving grace was that the jury had spared her a first-degree felony conviction, so now the worst-case scenario was 20 years. That grand jury would end up being the first of sixover the course of nearly three yearsto investigate her for alleged election code violations. She was found guilty by a jury and agreed to a sentence of 10 years probation and to step down from the bench. The Civil Rights Division may also be contacted via telephone at 512-463-2642 or 888-452-4778 (in Texas only). Wooten was familiar with his namethey ran in some of the same circles and had some of the same friendsand she needed the help. There will be many other names that will come up as being involved in the public corruption, Wood County Sheriff Kelly Cole, District Attorney Investigator Jerry Hirsch, District Clerk Suzy Wright, County Clerk Kelley Price, Assistant District Attorney Shauna Key, Attorney Cliff Thomas, etc., but Ill get to them as their names come up. Texas. He still has an active consulting practice, although he has not worked on another judicial campaign. Hes just a very intelligent guy. In addition to arguing that the Collin County District Attorneys Office was plagued by a pattern of abuse of power and malicious prosecution for political gain, Palmer and Cox also argued that Milner and Roach had grossly abused the grand jury process as part of their prosecutor-led investigation. And even if it had, it wasnt a crime. And Milner and White, their henchmen, have moved on to private practice. He thought the consultant might be able to help develop a government sales pipeline for his companys tech products. Dave and Stacy didnt do anything wrong. There would be no opponent in November. After Wooten was elected, a hearing in the case was scheduled in her courtroom, but she recused herself as soon as she realized that several of the lawyers involved were from her old firm or had helped on her campaign. It generally requires a video, or a written letter or text, or a wiretapped phone conversation. He says he agreed to do consulting work on behalf of both Stacy and Dave for pay and that any advice he gave them with regard to parental rights he was glad to provide for free. Texas Crime Statistics. Who bribed who what? Doesnt bribery involve you getting money or someone paying money or something? Blow the whi Their surprise was understandable. Maine Everyone knew someone else, and they almost all had a tie to the Collin County Republican Party. With that in mind, Best Life set out to determine the most corrupt state in America. Dallas most important news stories of the week, delivered to your inbox each Sunday. The most corrupt police force in Texas Written by Alan Bean In the next segment of this series, we will be looking at Shaun Cooks' experience with the criminal justice system in his home town of Hearne, Texas. Spencer came to Dallas to meet with the Carys the following month, and they talked in the Carys home for several hours. She says Spencer provided the services that she paid him for, and the dates of the checks produced in court are misleading. Thats when we discovered I won in the early voting 60 to 40 [percent], she says. And thats how I talk to my kids about it. Later, at the time of his indictment in the Wooten matter, he would be an officer with TDi, a tech company in Plano. 10. She had been accused of taking bribes from a couple, whom she swore she had never personally met, to fund campaign expenses, which she had checks to show she had paid for, in return for favorable decisions in a custody dispute, which she had recused herself from and never heard. If youve ever walked into a voting booth and had your eyes glaze over at a long list of judicial candidates with unfamiliar names, you know how tempting it is to simply vote a straight ticket. Milner wasnt the only one talking that way. Consulting on other legislative issues for pay was his job. Beginning in 2005, he started going to Austin to try to amend laws regarding parental rights that he felt were unconstitutional. Lubbock's. He encourages cops, prosecutors to subvert the will of the people and indict her for something that isnt a crime. To be eligible to run for a district court judge seat, you must be a citizen of the United States and Texas, be aged 25 to 74, be a resident of the district for two years, and be a practicing lawyer or judge for a total of at least four years. Spencer pled guilty. He says sometimes C-level executives fail to see the forest for the trees, and you need to give them the top-down view so they can finally see the bear traps and the clear path through them. So when he offered his services as a turnkey media manager for her campaign, even though hed never managed a judicial campaign before, she agreed. And he had 162 years of history proving that his 464-vote margin entitled him to what was essentially a lifetime appointment. They were really trying to make sure their little apple cart didnt get upset.. Here is the cast of characters that you will be reading the most about: First Assistant District Attorney Brandon Baade-A man whose physical unattractiveness is only surpassed by his lack of intelligence and moral bankruptcy, but has somehow tricked the people in the courthouse that he is brilliant and that they have to heed every bit of horrible advice that he gives, even though it took him 3 years to pass the bar exam after graduating law school from the LESS THAN PRESTIGIOUS Regent University Law School. It was followed by Los Angeles with 1,547 and New York's Southern Judicial District with 1,360. His wife, Judge Jill Willis, still sits on the 429th. I had started to think Spencer must be some sort of Keyser Sze, a con man hiding in plain sight. . Her readily accessible credit, available on credit cards and through a line of credit, never totaled less than $150,000 during the course of her campaign. She lived under a bridge for days before finally hitchhiking to Louisiana. She didnt do anything wrong, Palmer says. She didnt even know he was suffering from thrombosis until she discovered theyd moved him to the medical unit in Galveston. In all, I am told, 443 Texas judges are new to their jobs. Then Huntsville. The bigger problem was the inconsistent way judges enforced them. This story originally appeared in the October issue of D Magazine. And a member of Roachs staff now holds Wootens former bench in the 380th District Court. In many ways his career has come full circle. Well, crapShawshank Redemption, Wooten thought. It was the snake oil stuff that was supposed to cure people who were meth addicts, Wooten says. The process invites abuse, and Walker's reporting led to an audit that uncovered corruption. The final tally was 19,700 to 14,734, 57 percent to 43 percent. The Special Crimes Unit has been disbanded. I spent six months conducting interviews and reviewing hundreds of pages of records trying to understand what happened to Suzanne Wooten. So on January 2, 2008, the last possible day to file, she walked over to the Collin County Republican Party headquarters. One obnoxious guy in the second row said loudly, So did you do it? He kept copious journals in faint, prison-approved pencil. Do I really want to be a judge? Wooten says. The least corrupt states are Washington and. But Palmer was familiar with how Milner ran the Special Crimes Unit. Wooten did, too. It was my mailbox, but I didnt even own a dog.. Dave was the last man standing. Brings new meaning to the phrase Sunday Funday. He saw Roach and Milner as bullies, routinely threatening lawyers and judgesanyone, really, who got in their waywith criminal prosecution. In fact, he was so concerned that they might miss the statute of limitationsit wasnt clear based on the facts if they had one or two yearsthat he brought in Sean Cox, an appellate lawyer, to help with the drafting. He knew the prosecutors were acting like cops, and there was Supreme Court case law that said if you act like a cop, you get qualified immunity like a cop. She gets convicted. And he was actually out of jail on parole when he did it. Wooten subsequently filed for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Declaring Actual Innocence as a Matter of Law. Dad used to say if you dig a dry hole, that gives you more information of where to drill next time. The Texas Rangers' Public Integrity Unit and Public Corruption Unit are tasked with investigating crimes committed by state officers and state employees, as well as allegations of public corruption. I mean, the guy just didnt understand that he wasnt God, Schulte says. He argued that the fees should have been paid before the ads ran, and, according to her campaign finance reports, she didnt have enough funds in her campaign account to pay them. Schulte now lives with his partner, Brett, in West Arvada, Colorado, between Boulder and Denver. A jury was picked on . Even after the Spencers moved back to Texas, the grandparents werent notified, and they were unable to see their grandchildren for five years. Starting in July 2008, Sandoval sent a flurry of correspondence on judicial letterhead to Milner in the DAs office, alleging that something was fishy with Wootens expenditures for radio advertising. Judge of the 429th | 2009 present, Greg Willis, (husband of Jill Willis) Now, he says, laughing, Im the faggot from Colorado.. Even if she were sentenced to prison time, White wasnt sure how long she could stay on the bench during the course of an appeal. And then not only that, prosecute two, three other people? A fellow prosecutor says that when he asked Milner why he charged the lawyer, Milner told him, That guy fucked me over years ago. I never even bothered to get it expunged. But he was already working regularly with a local television station as a legal analyst. This one was a plea to prison officials to let his wife bring his wedding ring to prison and to let him wear it. Corruption and incompetence. On December 14, 2016, the nine justices handed down a unanimous opinion upholding Daves appeal and overturning Stacys. (Not to be confused with his son, Judge John Roach Jr., who currently presides over the 296th District Court in Collin County. Enjoy!!!! If she didnt, he threatened, she was going to face indictment and would lose her house, law license, family, and reputation, and he would put her in prison for a long time. The police eventually tracked her down in a womens shelter in Louisiana, and the district attorneys office brought her before Wooten for a bench trial. Between 2015 and 2021, the Texas Rangers completed investigations into more than 560 public integrity and corruption complaints, including allegations of theft, bribery, abuse of office, sexual. Shell just let anybody off.. In an interview with the FBI, she stated that the grand jury was like a reunion. Stacy disagrees. On that November day in 2011, nobody could have foreseen that Wooten, whose hands were effectively tied behind her back without the ability to appeal, would emerge a decade later, Houdini-like, with a complete exoneration and a $600,000 settlement against Collin County. The FBI is cracking down on rampant corruption in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Part of the problem, Schulte says, is that Milner really just wanted to be a police officer. This was particularly cynical given the fact that Ms. Wooten was active in the Democratic party two years prior to this race. For 162 years, district court judges had gotten their benches either by gubernatorial appointment when a court opened up due to retirement or death, or by election (often uncontested) when a new court was created. If he could unseat one who had taken a bad position on parental rights, he thought, maybe he could finally get some traction. Suzanne Wooten did the impossible and became the first candidate to defeat a sitting judge in Collin County. Sometimes Im the guy who knows the guy.. But for that, Wooten would never have obtained her exoneration. City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > Texas > Lubbock: Most corrupt city I have ever lived in (Lubbock, West: waterpark, school) . I kept saying, I dont wanna look. When the restaurant next door closed down at 10 pm, the owners came over with bottles of wine. A recent poll on a parental rights website had identified some of the worst judges in the country. Thats got to be illegal.. Assistant Attorney General Harry White would argue that the consulting agreement was fabricated after the fact to cover the real purpose of the $150,000the bribery of Wootenand that the only work Spencer did was to pass off industry analyses from places such as the Harvard Journal of Legislation as his own. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison probated and 30 days in jail. It just takes one jilted man and a few loyal henchmen to put a woman back in her permitted place. Suzanne Wooten was the first to go to trial, in November 2011. So my attention was drawn to Collin County, because its the reddest county in the reddest state, Spencer says. Ever. Wood County District Attorney Angela Albers-A woman whose physical ugliness is only surpassed by Brandons, and only got her job by going along with her best friend Brandon Baades unscrupulous plan to take over the Wood County DAs office by making false accusations of sexual harassment against her former boss Jim Wheeler. Even though hes not a lobbyist and has never been to college, he says he has an effective network of people to help him if he doesnt have the answer. And the Court of Appeals fixes it. From 2015 to 2020, the Texas Rangers completed more than 560 public corruption case investigations, but only 67 of those cases have been prosecuted, according to DPS data analyzed by . The Most Lawless County in Texas Suzanne Wooten did the impossible and became the first candidate to defeat a sitting judge in Collin County. It isnt a crimealthough its not smartto use money earned from one client to pay bills for another before they pay you back because you dont want to admit to anyone that youre broke. John Roach Sr. was running uncontested for the 199th. I gave them my filing fee and my application, and they said, What are you doing? And I said, Well, Im going to run for judge.. Davis also warned prosecutors to avoid the 429th, Judge Jill Willis court. I didnt know anybody that thought she committed bribery., Another lawyer made a similar clerical mistake in the use of a partially filled out form that still contained facts related to a different case. Then he read the comments and saw a thread that mentioned Sandoval. Willis, who had taken her bench at the same time Wooten had, was presumably also a target because her husband, Judge Greg Willis, was planning to run for Roachs job as DA. Because those juries never had the whole picture. District courts are the general jurisdiction trial courts in Texas. Where are these places you wonder? Most judges were former prosecutors with no family law experience. The court then went one step further. 750 North St.Paul St. Bonham. One-third of all District Court judges in Texas have been appointed, not elected. Wooten assured Spencer thatbetween her generous law firm salary, savings, and a $50,000 line of creditshe had sufficient funds at her disposal to cover anything she couldnt raise. Most try both criminal and civil cases, but in larger counties, such as Dallas, individual courts may specialize in civil, criminal, juvenile, or family law. He wanted them all held accountable. It was because the jurors couldnt believe the way judges are elected in Texas. Greg Abbott is the incumbent Republican governor, up for reelection on November 8. Due to the shortness of the race, Clements agreed to cut his fee in half to $25,000, and then he got to work booking radio ads. In February 2019, during his State of the Judiciary address to the 86th Legislature, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht (a Republican) addressed this issue: Historic as was the blow Hurricane Harvey dealt the Texas Judiciary, so was the blow from the November election, he said. He seemed to believe that they must have cost an exorbitant amount, and he suggested that they were paid for with secret funds paid to Spencer, her media consultant, by an unidentified third party. He and his wife are divorced but, he says, amicably so. The data also highlights the extent of the problem across all 50 states and the District of Columbia . Wooten, having done nothing wrong, refused to leave the bench. He was elected to fill the vacancy left by Suzanne Wooten. These six checks would later constitute the six bribery counts in Dave, Stacy, and Wootens criminal court cases. Her law license was suspended, so she worked as a paralegal and started building a mediation and trial consulting business. Judge John Roach Sr. is rumored to have retired to New Mexico; his son, Judge John Roach Jr., currently sits on the 296th. First, as Schulte noted, it is entirely legal for a law firm to write a check for $30,000 to a sitting judge at a cocktail fundraiser for his or her reelection campaign on Friday night and then have one or more of its lawyers appear before said judge for a hearing on Monday morning. Would you say hes a lobbyist?. What followed is the unbelievable, epic tale of. I will lose myself in the crazy, corrupt, centuries-old history of the Collin County court system. The 43-year-old Collin County District Court judge was used to observing the courtroom from the opposite vantage point. The $150,000 that Stacy paid Spencer from January 2008 to March 2008 was all deposited in Spencers joint checking account with his wife. Here are the 15 most corrupt states in America. You get arrested, they take your TV, they take your cash. Wooten and Jill Willis, who were friends, were also outsiders: they were rare examples of Collin County jurists who had not taken the bench via the DAs office. She said, Do you want to be right or do you want to be free? Wooten knew that if she were sentenced to more than 10 years, she would not be entitled to an appeal bond; she would go straight to prison without seeing her kids. So she climbed out a window and fled. 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