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Higher Authority

“When God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it,” Jack Robison told the jury. That was his defense for trying to get the jury to hand down an acquittal. Robison wasn’t the defendant, or even the accused’s lawyer: he was the judge. The Comal County, Texas, jury convicted the defendant anyway, for a human-trafficking offense; she was sentenced to 25 years — by a different judge. In a previous case, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct reprimanded Robison, saying he had “exceeded the scope of his authority and failed to comply with the law” when, with no hearing, he locked up a man who’d called him a fool. The commission might investigate this case too. (AC/Austin American-Statesman) ...“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.” —Proverbs 29:11 (KJV).