Judge Sandoval Overturned Again on Appeal

Last Friday, the 5th Court of Appeals overturned the 2006 murder conviction of Peruvian nanny Ada Betty Cuadros-Fernandez. The reason was judicial error.  The judge was Charles Sandoval, who — thrown out of office by Collin County voters in 2008 — somehow recently got Judge John Ovard to appoint him a visiting judge in Dallas County. The Collin County Observer does an excellent reporting job on the case. One commenter to that post asserts that Sandoval has been appealed more times than all other Collin County judges combined. Have fun with that, Dallas County attorneys.