{"id":718,"date":"2006-10-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/commission-accuses-garza-of-illegal-drug-use\/"},"modified":"2006-10-13T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T19:00:00","slug":"commission-accuses-garza-of-illegal-drug-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/commission-accuses-garza-of-illegal-drug-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission accuses Garza of illegal drug use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Garza%2C%20Carlos.35.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Garza%2C%20Carlos.34.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Suspended Do\u00f1a Ana County Magistrate Judge Carlos Garza faces several judicial charges, including illegal possession and use of drugs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The petition filed with the high court today charges that Garza:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 illegally used and possessed drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 failed to comply with a Judicial Standards Commission order that he submit to testing for illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 evaded service of the commission\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u2022 inappropriately used his judicial position in February 2006. Garza was in a car with Lauren Spillsbury when she was pulled over for speeding, and allegedly asked the police officer if he knew who Garza was and told Spillsbury he would \u201ctake care\u201d of the citation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 inappropriately ordered Spillsbury\u2019s license cleared of any suspensions in the middle of a pending case.  <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]-->  <!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Garza says he plans to keep fighting, and accused the commission of ignoring evidence that would clear his name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIf the Supreme Court determines what (the commission) did was right, then I\u2019ll go find another job, no problem, but I think I was cheated,\u201d Garza said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019ll have more later this afternoon, including an in-depth interview with Garza. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspended Do\u00f1a Ana County Magistrate Judge Carlos Garza faces several judicial charges, including illegal possession and use of drugs. The petition filed with the high court today charges that Garza: \u2022 illegally used and possessed drugs. \u2022 failed to comply with a Judicial Standards Commission order that he submit to testing for illegal drugs. \u2022 [&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-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}