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Conduct on Friday reviewed for the second time
charges against Dallas Judge Jack Hampton,
whose disparaging remarks about two gay murder
victims sparked the most cormp16 ints the Pane
has received in its 34-year history
U'ficIls declined to discuss details of the case
but said they have received more than l,800 incd
volual ccmpiaints against Hampton, who traveit
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out appearing before the commission to resporid
to the Charges.
Commission officials would not confirm reports
that they had asked Hampton to appear Friday
and would say only that the case against him has
not been rsmissed.
As during the commission's last meeting in Jan-
uary, a crowd of about 40 demonstrators gathered
outside commission offices at noon to urge the
panel to pursue Hampton's ouster from the felony
bench he has held since his appointment by Gov.
Sdi Clements in 1961,
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