{"id":177,"date":"2006-08-21T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/magistrate-judge-reuben-galvan-resigned\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T22:34:00","slug":"magistrate-judge-reuben-galvan-resigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/magistrate-judge-reuben-galvan-resigned\/","title":{"rendered":"Magistrate Judge Reuben Galvan (resigned)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Galvan resigned in May 2005 while battling charges that he raped and solicited a bribe from a woman in August 2004. After two hung juries, prosecutors dropped the charges. <\/p>\n

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In a statement he gave to police during the rape investigation, Galvan admitted to actions that may violate the Code of Judicial Conduct. While drinking and flirting in a bar, he discussed with the woman a pending battery case against her husband, though she was the alleged victim and believed he was the judge. He took the woman for a ride in his Porsche, though he told police he had too much to drink before driving. <\/p>\n

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In July, the high court barred Galvan from ever again holding judicial office in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, but not because it found that the commission presented \u201cclear and convincing evidence\u201d of misconduct. The court issued its order because Galvan failed to respond to its request for an argument against a permanent ban from the bench.<\/p>\n

Galvan\u2019s accuser in the rape case is now suing him in federal court.<\/p>\n

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Key articles:
<\/span>\u2022 Aug. 30: Former Magistrate Galvan sued over rape allegation<\/a>
\u2022 July 25: In the end, Galvan simply gave up fighting<\/a>
\u2022 July 24: Galvan, though barred by court from holding office, not found to have violated judicial ethics<\/a>
\u2022 July 21: BREAKING NEWS: High court says Galvan can\u2019t be a judge ever again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Galvan resigned in May 2005 while battling charges that he raped and solicited a bribe from a woman in August 2004. After two hung juries, prosecutors dropped the charges. In a statement he gave to police during the rape investigation, Galvan admitted to actions that may violate the Code of Judicial Conduct. While drinking and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}