Overview
- The February 5 ruling confirms the disciplinary sanction and orders the judge to pay €600 in legal costs, finding the penalty proportionate and within the lower range for a serious offense.
- The disciplinary record details derogatory nicknames for staff, sexually charged comments to a court official, public humiliation, threats, and a remark to a detainee expressing a wish for conviction.
- The CGPJ’s Disciplinary Commission deemed the conduct a serious offense of lack of consideration and abuse of authority, a conclusion later upheld by the CGPJ Plenary before reaching the Supreme Court.
- The judge’s procedural challenges—alleging excessive investigation time, denial of counsel, and insufficient evidentiary grounding—were rejected as the court found adequate motivation and due process.
- The magistrate previously served in Nules from October 2020 to November 2022 and is now assigned to a court for Violence Against Women in the Canary Islands, with the sanction left standing.