The State Commission on Judicial Conduct was forced to suspend one of its former members from the bench without pay after he was indicted for allegedly violating open meeting laws.
Joel Patrick Baker, an attorney who serves as Smith County judge and heads its commissioners’ court, was suspended from his job according to a June 21 order. Baker was indicted June 16 by a Smith County grand jury for two misdemeanor courts of allegedly closing a public meeting in order to award a red-light camera contract to a company.
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