Judge Frank Aguilar of Houston; dimwit, serial scofflaw

The State of Texas provided Frank Aguilar with a law license in 1985 after he graduated from the University of Texas School of Law.

The Texas Fair Defense Project and Texas Civil Rights filed an ethics complaint with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct alleging that Frankie engaged in the following misconduct involving the appointment of attorneys to represent indigent criminal defendants.

• Willfully and persistently violated Texas law requiring judges to prioritize appointing their county’s public defender office to represent indigent people accused of felony crimes.
• Rather than comply with Texas Law in appointing public defenders, Frankie appoints private attorneys to defend felony cases in his courtroom, including attorneys who make a handsome profit by maintaining excessive court-appointed caseloads
• Out of 1,418 cases through 2020, Frankie only appointed 14 cases to County paid Public Defenders
• 99.01% of Frankie’s appointments for indigent defendant were to private attorneys
• Frankie’s conduct undermines constitutional and statutory protections for indigent people accused of serious crimes
• Frankie’s conduct demonstrates a disregard for the law government attorney appointments
• Frankie exhibits bias against County paid Public Defenders, and favoritism towards private attorneys
• Private attorneys appointed by Frankie are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funds
• Frankie consistently thumbed his nose at Texas law requiring him to give priority to the public defender’s office when appointing lawyers in criminal proceedings
• Failed to comply with the law
• Failed to act in a manner promoting public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary
• Failed to maintain professional competence in the law (dimwit)
• Failed to perform his judicial duties without bias or prejudice
• Failed to exercise appointments impartially and on the basis of merit
• Failed to avoid nepotism and favoritism

All that remains now is to see what if any punishment is meted out to Frankie by the apologists for Judicial Misfits sitting on the Texas Supreme Court.

As we speak (ca. April 2021), Frankie practices his brand of law jurisprudence as 228^th Criminal District Court judge in Houston, Texas.