We heard countless calls for Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign her office after her April 2013 arrest for driving while intoxicated. She pled guilty and was sentenced to 45 days in jail and a $4,000 fine. The Daily Texan published an op-ed calling for Lehmberg’s resignation, Representative Phil King called for her resignation, a Remove Rosemary Lehmberg Facebook page was created and Rosemary Lehmberg parody to the tune of MTA by the Kingston Trio was posted on Free Republic.
So who will call for THIS guy to resign?
Hays County Court-at-Law Judge David Glickler was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving late Tuesday night, the county’s sheriff’s office said.
Glickler, 46, was pulled over about 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday by a deputy sheriff on Interstate 35, south of downtown Kyle, officials said.
He was charged with driving while intoxicated, a class B misdemeanor. Glickler was booked at the Hays County Jail early Wednesday morning and was released after posting a $3,000 bail.
Glickler has served as court-at-law judge since last November.
Glicker’s known not solely as a Hays County Judge, he’s part of the posse called in to action by the Texas Secretary of State when 10 citizens in Montgomery County voted and ousted some well-heeled incumbents in the special district known as The Woodlands RUD #1.
We wouldn’t want to call out the Statesman for neglecting that little tidbit in their reporting, would we?
Glicker is innocent until proven guilty but it’s not too soon to consider what might be tweeted after his case is adjudicated.
Will he ever return?
Foolme says
He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Is it a disgrace when a citizen has to face a corrupt judge and especially one that is questionable at that?
Tom says
I wouldn’t know Judge Glickler if he walked into my office and handed me his business card. But for Foolme to call him “corrupt” based on an arrest for driving while intoxicated, I have to object.
First, even if he is guilty of he offense, it doesn’t make him corrupt. My firm and I have represented just about every type of person in every occupation in DWI cases or related cases. DWI is everyman’s crime. Anyone who drinks at all and drives has been DWI on occasion. I’ll bet a lot of members of the Legislature, the judiciary and other elected officials have had a few, genuinely thought they were not intoxicated and drive. It’s not a crime involving moral turpitude and it isn’t corruption.
As for the Travis County DA, Gov. Perry was all over her not because she picked up a DWI but to gut her public integrity unit. About the same time, another DA in west Texas was arrested for DWI and no one wanted his head.
Thinking of Gov. Perry, we now know that his “opps” in the 2012 debate was caused by pain medication for a bad back, not because he’s dumb. He isn’t the first public official to have a problem with prescription medication. Former Chief Justice William Rehnquist had to go to drug treatment because he was strung out on prescription pain medication for a bad back.
Gov. Perry — and probably Chief Justice Rehnquist — may very well have been intoxicated for purposes of the Texas DWI statute during that debate and while performing public duties. Intoxication is defined as “not having the normal use of mental or physical faculties by reason of the introduction of alcohol, a controlled substance, a drug, a dangerous drug, a combination of two or more of those substances, or any other substance into the body.”
I’m willing to cut people a little slack, especially on a first offense DWI. I suspect I’ve been intoxicated for purposes of the statute while driving. I’ve just never been caught.
A DWI conviction shouldn’t disqualify Judge Glickler from holding his office any more than Gov. Perry or Chief Justice Rehnquist should have been disqualified for use of prescription pain medications while performing their official duties.
Wally says
This is not the Judge’s first driving while intoxicated arrest. Fool me once, and how many more shall we accept?
Jen says
I think that Jenkins case was just reversed on appeal. http://countycitizen.com/blog/2015/06/04/jenkins-rud-case-reversed-and-remanded-for-retrial/
Tom Zakes says
A) Does he have jurisdiction over anything other than Hays County? If not, it’s a local issue and will be up to the folks in Hays County.
B) As you noted, he’s innocent till proven guilty.
C) Does he act crazy on video like Lehmberg did, throwing her weight around?
D) There’s a difference between prosecutors and judges.
I’m Tom Zakes and I approve this message.
Dan Lan says
As for Lehmberg, you have seen the video?
Can you doubt that her acts were a violation of?:
Sec. 36.03. COERCION OF PUBLIC SERVANT OR VOTER. (a) A person commits an offense if by means of coercion he:
(1) influences or attempts to influence a public servant in a specific exercise of his official power or a specific performance of his official duty or influences or attempts to influence a public servant to violate the public servant’s known legal duty;
Will any of the lawyers here aver that that person should be in charge of the state office that oversees:
TITLE 8. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 36. BRIBERY AND CORRUPT INFLUENCE
Daniel Montes says
I asked Judge Glickler to resign after he ruled on my non-set motion to recuse and or disqualify Judge Robert E. Updgrove. Glicker allegedly issued a verbal order dismissing my not set motion to recuse. My federal due process and property rights were severely affected, bc Updegrove then dismissed ALL of my not set motions. The case was before the Third Ct of Appeals, but is NOW before the USDC Eastern Division of Texas, Austin. Original probate was in Hays #14-0132-P, In Re Ricardo Perez Hernandez, my deceased uncle. The case is about a fraudulent will taken with undue influence, and gross estate fraud by the executrix Elvira H. Ximenes with assistance of Judges Glickler and Updegrove.
/s/Daniel Montes
Relator
Daniel Montes says
Update. The probate case has been removed to federal court. I will ask Glickler again to resign in the fed pleadings.
Daniel Montes
Daniel Montes says
I filed a formal complaint against Glickler with the Texas Comm on Judicial Conduct. Yes, he violated a few canons. Let’s see how it turns out for him. Also, his partner Updegrove is hearing Glickler’s DWI case. Updegrove needs to recuse himself. Hays County is a good ol boy town. No jistice for the citizens of the county. They both need to be voted out.
Daniel Montes
Daniel Montes says
Call for Judge Robert Updegrove to resign or recuse himself. He’s ripping my grandmother off. She’s 102 yrs old and was defrauded of her son’s entire estate worth over $250k. She’s the sole next of kin living heir. Updegrove is upholding a fraufulent will that has NO WITNESSES nor notary. See In Ricardo Perez Hernandez #14-0132-p. This republican is biased and is not fair to the citizens of Hays County.
Daniel Montes
Grandson of Juana P. Hdz
Daniel Montes says
In Hays County to feel free to commit estate fraud via a fraudulent will, bc Judge Glickler and Updegrove will help you with your fraud. Also DA Mau will not prosecute you for estate fraud up to the first degree. So, obtain your false wills before your victims die.
Yes. I Daniel Montes wrote this.
Daniel Montes says
UPDATE, February 22nd, 2016,
I’m not sure if anyone in Hays County is even reading this blog. Judges Glickler and Updegrove BOTH HAVE RECUSED THEMSELVES in #14-0132-P, In Re Ricardo Perez Hernandez (deceased), probate case. My grandmother Juana P. Hernandez is probating her son’s holographic will that competing with a will drafted by a rich daughter named Elvira H. Ximenes from San Antonio Texas. She pulled my uncle out of bed a few days after heart surgery to have his will executed, she made herself executrix and beneficiary EXCLUDING my GRANDMOTHER. This is FIRST DEGREE ESTATE FRAUD if any of you happen to be on the probate jury trial or grand jury if an indictment is presented.
My name is Daniel Montes, loyal grandson of Juana and nephew of Ricardo and made this comment.
Daniel Montes says
Glicker has agreed to a plea bargain. I’m sending a copy of the court judgment to the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct. He needs to resign or be removed by the Commission.
Daniel Montes says
Update on David Glickler.
On July 16th, 2016, the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a public reprimand against David Glickler from the complaint filed by Daniel Montes, Texas Citizen.
The Commission stated the basis was the fact that Glickler told the officer that he was a judge and tried to get out from being arrested for DWI.
Glickler is still on the bench. This person needs to resign or the citizens of Hays County need to have him recalled or voted out at the next election cycle. He and Updegrove are BAD APPLES in HAYS COUNTY.
I’m Daniel Montes and I approved this message.
/s/Daniel Montes