Dallas Judge Carlos Cortez Loses Bid to Keep Allegations of Drug Use, Child Molestation Secret
For the past three-plus years, Dallas County District Judge Carlos Cortez has been fighting to keep potentially damaging allegations about his personal life secret.
On Wednesday, Cortez lost the fight. A Texas appeals court decided that, even though none of the allegations against him resulted in a formal determination of wrongdoing, they were filed as part of an open court proceeding and therefore should be available to the public.
Suffice to say, it's easy to see why Cortez fought so hard to keep the documents under wraps. The Dallas Morning News, which has been digging on this story for months, has a long and well-researched piece on the allegations, but below are excerpts from depositions given by two women, Melinda Henry and Patti Haynes, with whom Cortez had a relationship.
Strip clubs: Henry testifies that she was a waitress at Silver City Cabaret when she met Cortez around 2005. This was the year before he was elected to the bench, and he was a regular there, showing up around lunchtime and sipping red wine until the evening.
All of the dirt on Judge Cortez is at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/04/dallas_judge_carlos_cortez_los.php .
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