{"id":449,"date":"2006-08-09T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/breaking-news-high-court-suspends-garza-for-90-days-with-pay\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:57:00","slug":"breaking-news-high-court-suspends-garza-for-90-days-with-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/breaking-news-high-court-suspends-garza-for-90-days-with-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: High court suspends Garza for 90 days with pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Garza%2C%20Carlos.20.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Garza%2C%20Carlos.18.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The New Mexico Supreme Court has suspended Do\u00f1a Ana County Magistrate Judge Carlos Garza, with pay, for 90 days.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The petition from the Judicial Standards Commission seeking his immediate, temporary suspension has been sealed by the court, so the allegations against Garza aren\u2019t known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Reached by cell phone shortly after the court issued its order today, Garza said he was at work and had not yet heard that he had been suspended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Garza returned to work today after taking about a week off from work. He was suffering health problems related to the stress of the current uncertainty over his job situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The court\u2019s suspension of Garza lasts through Nov. 3, according to a clerk in the Supreme Court clerk\u2019s office. His response to the commission\u2019s petition is due Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Garza is running unopposed for re-election this year. He\u2019s already on judicial probation stemming from an admission in May to improperly involving himself in a drunken driving case against a woman with whom he had a personal relationship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Garza\u2019s punishment from the high court in that case included a $600 fine, a formal reprimand, six months of supervised probation and mentorship. He failed to pay the fine by the June 22 deadline the court set, but paid it a week later, after the commission filed a motion seeking an order requiring Garza to explain why he should not be held in contempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though Garza admitted to the charges in that case, he seemed to back off days later in an interview with the Las Cruces Sun-News, saying \u201cI know the difference between wrong and right in my job and I had to admit something for economic reasons.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Mexico Supreme Court has suspended Do\u00f1a Ana County Magistrate Judge Carlos Garza, with pay, for 90 days. The petition from the Judicial Standards Commission seeking his immediate, temporary suspension has been sealed by the court, so the allegations against Garza aren\u2019t known. Reached by cell phone shortly after the court issued its order [&hellip;]<\/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-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}