El Paso Judge Reprimanded

An El Paso judge has been publicly reprimanded for what appears to be continuing to be the attorney of record on a case for at least 6 months after he was sworn in as a judge. 

Correction - it wasn't one case. 

It wasn't two. 

It wasn't three. 

It was actually six cases according to the reprimand. 

Associate Court Judge James Lucas, who was hired by Judge Marlene Gonzalez, was given this public reprimand:

Associate Judges are hired by the presiding judge, who has sole discretion over the hiring decision. Lucas was an outspoken supporter of Gonzalez during her campaign. 

He is also a close political ally and was a frequent co-counsel to Theresa Caballero. The two most recently served as counsel for the woman who got off with time served after she pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement to one count each of tampering or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair and abuse of corpse without legal authority.