Charges filed by county attorney, then dismissed, led to ethics complaints

A former Doss school board member who incurred more than $48,000 in legal fees fighting charges by the Gillespie County Attorney that were later dismissed, will be reimbursed.

Gillespie County Attorney Steven Wadsworth has since been the subject of eight ethics complaints with the State Bar of Texas for “abusive prosecutorial overreach” and “grossly unethical conduct,” according to a copy of the ethics complaint ob...