A visiting senior district judge is getting attention after he dressed down a Tarrant County jury for acquitting a DWI criminal defendant, calling jurors’ decision “one of the most bizarre verdicts that I’ve ever seen,” according to a trial transcript.

According to a transcript of an Oct. 29 hearing held after the jury returned its not-guilty verdict, Judge Jerry Ray seemed to focus on a note concerning an Intoxilyzer test that the jury sent out while deliberating in The State of Texas v. David Duc Tran.

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