Judge resigns after improper IMs with wife

[teflep]

A New Mexico judge has resigned following allegations that he sent instant messages to his wife, a court employee, during trials and other proceedings.

The judge, Eugenio Mathis of Las Vegas, N.M., admitted that he had engaged in “excessive and improper” instant messaging with his wife, but denied that any communications included intimations of courthouse sex, the Albuquerque Journal reports. The Santa Fe New Mexican and the Associated Press also have stories on Mathis’ resignation.

In his resignation agreement, Mathis admitted that he violated the court computer and Internet use policy; that he made disparaging comments about other judges to his wife; that he referred to parties in a domestic violence case as “chigando,” or acting crazy; and that he made “judicial statements” about pending cases, according to the Albuquerque Journal report.

The New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission had claimed Mathis engaged in “communications of a sexual nature” with his wife during working hours, “including intimations that he had or would be having sexual relations with her during the workday and/or on court premises.”

Mathis denied that charge and also denied allegations that he undermined his wife’s supervisors, and allowed his wife to pay bills and shop online during work.

Chat logs filed with the state supreme court in support of the petition don’t identify the speakers, but the messages are presumably between Mathis and his wife, according to the Albuquerque Journal and AP. One message reads: “Don’t come knocking if the jury room is rockin’.”

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[ESF]

New Mexico has the craziest shit in their judicial system. Someone told me that several judges there have had to resign for cocaine use, prostitutes, etc.

I'm dying at the idea of this judge sending horny texts to his wife during trials. DYING.

[teflep]

I'm trying to figure what could have made him all hot. Like "oh, honey, they just showed a bong as evidence. You know what bong rhymes with? Smooches"

[wrathofkuus]

His own wife? What a refreshingly unusual scandal.

[caden]

Mar 6, 2013 21:36:47 GMT -5 teflep said:

I'm trying to figure what could have made him all hot. Like "oh, honey, they just showed a bong as evidence. You know what bong rhymes with? Smooches"

LOL

[taratru]

Oh, Las Vegas, NM. What a shithole. It's a college town and it still sucks. You remember that movie No Country for Old Men? That was filmed there. I stayed in the same hotel as Josh Brolin was staying in once.

[meshaliuknits]

Mar 6, 2013 21:43:41 GMT -5 wrathofkuus said:

His own wife? What a refreshingly unusual scandal.

My thoughts exactly.

Sent from my EVO

[Deleted]

Las Vegas, NM is always where I started to nod off and I wanted to stick a convenience store spork in my eye when driving from Denver to Santa Fe to visit SO before he moved up here. Shit hole does it a little bit too much justice.

[Doc_Lobster]

Mar 6, 2013 23:15:25 GMT -5 @wonderred said:

Las Vegas, NM is always where I started to nod off and I wanted to stick a convenience store spork in my eye when driving from Denver to Santa Fe to visit SO before he moved up here. Shit hole does it a little bit too much justice.

SUCH a shithole. My H and I always joke about heading up to Vegas for a weekend.

[LoveTrains]

I went through that town in the train to LA from Chicago. Honestly who hasn't spent some time at work at some point sending messages to their spouse or online shopping?

[IIOY]

I once had a trial in federal court where the judge fell asleep. Someone would object to a question and we would all just stand there waiting for a ruling. We eventually just kept going with the questioning and hoped that the objection on record was sufficient in the event we had to appeal. Yay for judge shenanigans!

Also, a lot of NM is a shithole, and I say this as someone who loves NM.