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A Texas judge who regularly oversees drink driving cases was arrested for drink driving after trying to reverse his car into a parking spot that already had a car in it, according to the Travis County Sheriff's Office.

Travis County Judge John Lipscombe was arrested for DWI in the lobby of the Homewood Suites by Hilton in North Austin a little after midnight on Saturday May 7, telling deputies that he had only had 'a couple of drinks at his house but not even to get messy'.

Deputies were called to the parking lot of the hotel after a verbal argument had broken out between Lipscombe and a witness who had intervened to stop him backing in to the parked car in the spot he was trying to take.

After the dispute Lipscombe, who has been a presiding judge in the county for over ten years, drove around the parking lot and parked in a disabled space right next to the hotel entrance.