Substance abuse affects us all, even those of us who ascend to the highest heights, apparently.
A black Texas judge has been suspended amid accusations that she sexted in the courtroom, used her bailiff to buy drugs, hired prostitutes and once brought marijuana seized from a defendant, according to the Washington Post.
Hilary H. Green, who despite these longstanding allegations, was overwhelmingly reelected Harris County, Texas, justice of the peace, was immediately suspended Friday her courtroom. Green has not been accused of a crime.
Sadly, it was Green’s divorce to one of City Controller Ronald C. Green, with whom she has a child.
Their divorce battle got contentious and Ronald Green in 2015 called his wife a drug addict who “operates daily with impaired judgment as evidenced by her presiding over cases in which she has ongoing sexual relationships with litigants and witnesses.”
The Post reports that more allegations came from Claude Barnes, a bailiff whom Green acknowledged as her ex-lover — though she denied his testimony that they had hired prostitutes for threesomes.
Barnes testified that he, Judge Green and a prostitute had an alleged rendezvous in a Crowne Plaza hotel room where they allegedly smoked weed and engaged in a threesome. He also alleges that they did ecstasy and they he “repeatedly” helped Green buy prescription cough syrup on the black market.
In a letter to the commission, Green acknowledged many of her misdeeds, and admitted to abusing drugs “almost every night” for several years, according to court records.
Green’s suspension will last until a civil trial can be held to consider whether to remove her from office, which could last for years.
Read more of this real-life Love and Hip Hop storyline at the Washington Post.
