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Texas Judge Indicted for Making Secret Deal with Red-light Camera Company
Loaded on Aug. 2, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2016, page 35
Smith County, Texas Judge Joel Patrick Baker was suspended without pay on June 21, 2016 after being arrested the previous week on three misdemeanor counts of violating the Texas Open Meetings Act.
Baker, who has denied any wrongdoing, is accused of improperly entering into a 10-year agreement with red-light camera ...
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