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Judge who promoted Prometa defeated at polls

By Gritsforbreakfast

While I've completely dropped the ball covering the dustup over a Collin County judge's questionable experimental sentencing of probationers to use of "Prometa," an anti-addiction medication, Bill Baumbach at the Collin County Observer has been all over it, and has another excellent post and roundup informing us that the judge in question was defeated at the polls on Tuesday. Reports Baumbach:Judge Sandoval contacted Hythiam [a drug company] last year and with little public input or oversight, began a pilot program on 20 probationers in his court. On his website, Sandoval claimed to save the county $400,000 in the pilot tests. Attempts by The Collin County Observer to see documentation of the financial claims were answered by Sandoval with, "This office has no records of the Prometa pilot program...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 07, 2008 (boomark / email).