Judge’s job in peril over video of beating

By Christopher Sherman

Associated Press / November 4, 2011

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As his adult daughter took to national television, the career of the Texas judge now infamous for the violent beating he gave her as a teenager began to look less certain yesterday. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced that it had opened an investigation into the video, now viewed more than 2.3 million times on YouTube, that shows Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams beating his then-16-year-old daughter with a belt for using an illegal file-sharing program.

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