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Texas Judge Suspended Amid Allegations of Sexting Her Bailiff

Hilary H. Green allegedly used Ecstasy, cocaine, and sent explicit texts to her bailiff.

A Harris County judge has been suspended by the Texas Supreme Court after she was accused of abusing drugs and soliciting sex. 

Judge Hilary H. Green has been suspended without pay effective immediately after State Commission on Judicial Conduct received complaints for the last several years, reported ABC 13.

"We're a little surprised that the Supreme Court issued a three-paragraph order when the judge had raised serious and substantial constitutional issues," Green's attorney, Chip Babcock, said in a statement. "We're disappointed in the court's ruling and we're still studying our options."

According to a court document, a former lover of Green’s said the judge abused prescription painkillers, used hard drugs like Ecstasy and cocaine, and used her bailiff to buy illegal substances.

However, Babcock said the allegations are not true and Green is a faithful public servant who will fight to stay in office.

"She's going to be fighting it. She's been doing a terrific job as a Justice of the Peace Precinct 7. She was reelected last November overwhelmingly," said Babcock. "The allegations that are in this complaint about her as to sex, drugs, and even the rock and roll are false and not true."

Judge Green is the 98th judge ever in state history to face such action. It will take a trial to permanently remove her from office

Many of the Commission report's claims were based on allegations from Green's ex-husband, former city councilman and ex-controller Ronald Green, in 2015 divorce court papers. Other allegations come from her ex-boyfriend Claude Barnes, whom she was seeing behind her husband's back during their marriage.

Barnes said that Green would get drugs from her bailiff, and that the two had a secret code for what drugs she wanted. If she texted him about 'nuts and bolts,' she meant Tussionex, a prescription cough medicine, if she asked for 'cookie dough,' she meant cocaine and if she wanted 'Skittles,' that meant Ecstasy. 

Green's attorney said the allegations are coming from an ex-husband hurt from a messy divorce and a scorned past lover. 

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