Video Shows Texas Judge Stumbling Through Sobriety Test Month After Court Drops Her DUI Charges

By Meg Wagner
NY Daily News
Dec. 06, 2014



Could this be the evidence they never got?

A month after a Texas court threw out a DUI case against a judge because it lacked strong evidence, police released dashcam video of her arrest that showed her stumble through a sobriety test.

The new video, recorded during a July traffic stop in McAllen, showed Nora Longoria struggling to walk a straight line, Action 4 News reported. She teetered and lost her balance several times during her failed sobriety test, the video showed.

But Hidalgo County Court at Law No. 8 Judge Rolando Cantu threw out the case last month, marking "other" for the reasoning.

Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra said her office never received the dashcam tape from McAllen police.

Instead, she saw video recorded at the police station, which showed a more put together Longoria. With that video alone, the case wasn’t strong enough to take to court, she said.

[...]McAllen police said they are not sure why the Attorney’s office never received the dashcam footage.

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