Kevin Patrick Yeary Republican

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4

Texas’s highest criminal court hears drug-possession and search-and-seizure appeals, so this race matters for cannabis even though no campaign is about it. ⚠️UNLIKE PLACE 3, THIS SEAT HAS A SITTING JUDGE: Kevin Patrick Yeary holds it now (https://www.txcourts.gov/cca/about-the-court/judges/judge-kevin-yeary.aspx), so a record of his published opinions exists. It has NOT yet been reviewed here, and nothing below should be read as a finding about how he has ruled. ⭐THE CANDIDATES’ SILENCE HERE IS REQUIRED, NOT EVASIVE. The Texas Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 5(1)(i), says a judge or judicial candidate shall not "make pledges or promises of conduct in office regarding pending or impending cases, specific classes of cases, specific classes of litigants, or specific propositions of law that would suggest to a reasonable person that the judge is predisposed to a probable decision". Marijuana possession and hemp prosecutions are exactly such a class of cases before this court, so this site does not read a judicial candidate’s silence the way it reads a legislator’s. (Texas Code of Judicial Conduct: https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1462935/texas-state-code-of-judicial-conduct.pdf)

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