Raymondville, TEXAS

Judge, formerly a fifth-grade teacher, indicted (again.)
Former school board president indicted for extortion plot against judge.
Former District attorney, formerly a teacher, indicted.

March 29, 2008 - County Judge Eliseo Barnhart, a former grade-school teacher who won office in a landslide victory in 2006, has been re-indicted by a grand jury on two counts of aggravated perjury.

Barnhart was indicted in September. It is alleged that Barnhart perjured himself in a deposition when he told a Texas Ranger that he didn't become sexually aroused when he allegedly fondled a secretary and later saying he was sexually aroused. The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct suspended Barnhart with pay after grand jurors handed down the first indictment. Barnhart pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The grand jury re-indicted Barnhart on a count of perjuring himself before a jury.
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TT - In other Willacy county news, Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra tried to indict his political rival Gus Garza (who beat him in one election), Raymondville Police Chief Uvaldo Zamora, Chief Deputy David Martinez, Sheriff Larry Spence, District Clerk Gilbert Lozano and County Clerk Terry Flores. whose actions lead to felony indictments against him. The indictments led to Guerra's arrest.

[TOTALLY IRRELEVANT BUT INTERESTING: Sheriff Spence fired Deputy Martinez after Martinez ran against him in the Democrat primary. Martinez is now homeless, since he was living in a department-supplied trailer unit in Port Mansfield.]

In 1991, county commissioners appointed Guerra as District Attorney. He was a former science teacher and businessman who grew up as a migrant farm worker.

YouTube video - Guerra (Oct 2007) worried about being indicted again.

Guerra was finally voted out of office.

Indictments (PDF) "I did not get a hard on" whereas, in truth and in fact, he did admit to having a hard on." (THIS IS LEGALESE, FOLKS.)