WYHI: Houston judge used drugs, had sexual relationships with litigants and witnesses.

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Green's troubles are tied to declarations from two former partners: her ex-husband and former Houston city controller Ronald Green and a boyfriend named Claude Barnes.

In 2015 divorce filings, Ronald Green said his wife was a longtime drug addict who had ongoing sexual relationships with "litigants and witnesses," the Houston Chronicle reported.

Barnes told the State Commission on Judicial Conduct that he had consumed ecstasy and marijuana with the judge and that one of her court officers had taken marijuana from a defendant and given it to her. He also alleged that he and Hilary Green had paid for prostitutes on two occasions, including once during a trip to Austin for a judges convention.

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Court records show that Green acknowledged she had traded sexts with a bailiff in her court between October 2013 and March 2014. She told the commission that she eventually asked the bailiff to stop messaging.

The commission said Green also admitted to using code words such as "bolts and screws" and "cookie dough" to try to hide attempts to buy cough medicine from the bailiff without a prescription.

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