A lawyer who received text messages from a judge during a trial—an incident that eventually lead to the jurist stepping off the bench—has received a public reprimand from the Commission for Lawyer Discipline, according to a recent agreed judgment released by the State Bar of Texas’ disciplinary arm.
Kaycee Lynn Jones committed professional misconduct by engaging in ex parte communication with then-State District Judge Elizabeth Coker during a 2012 trial, according to the May 5 agreed order. During an August 2012 criminal trial, while she was a Polk County assistant district attorney, Jones received a text message from Coker and continued to receive them—one of which “suggested a line of questioning” for a prosecutor Jones was observing, according to the agreed judgment.
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