Biography of judge elizabeth coker republican

Like most events inside the old courthouse in Livingston, Texas, population 5,238, the felony child abuse proceedings on August 8, 2012, involved a cast of legal professionals who knew each other well.

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State District Judge Elizabeth Coker, a third generation jurist with deep roots in the rolling farmland of East Texas, presided. David Wells, an investigator in the district attorney’s office shared a yellow legal pad with the prosecutor, Beverly Armstrong. Another prosecutor, Kaycee Jones, was there just to observe.

But at one point, her phone buzzed and she reached over to scribble a note on her colleagues’ paper.

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“Judge says…,” it started. And so began the trouble.

Criminal defense attorneys often grumble that judges favor the prosecution. Substantiating such suspicions is usually impossible. But in Coker’s case, it apparently wasn’t all that hard. After a 14-month investigation by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Coker stepped down from the bench last week, rebaptized in