Second Rains County judge indicted for witness tampering
Posted/updated on: July 4, 2025 at 5:56 am
RAINS COUNTY – Our news partner KETK reports that a second Rains County judge has been arrested for tampering with a witness.
According to records obtained from the Rains County District Clerk, Judge Linda Wallace has been indicted for witness tampering in the case State of Texas v. Robert Jenkins Franklin. Franklin was a justice of the peace who was arrested in May for official oppression and witness tampering. He is accused of telling a victim, “You take that deal, boy – or dead man can’t testify.”
“Wallace….did coerce [victim] who was a prospective witness in an official proceeding, by pressuring her as supervisor of her employment with intent to influence [the victim] to withhold testimony,” the indictment reads.
Wallace was appointed to fill the vacant Rains County judge position for the unexpired term of Rains County Judge Wayne Wolfe in 2021.
