Prosecutors say Texas Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D) spent over $51,000 on an online psychic and went to work in the Capitol while under the influence of medication, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

Dukes allegedly paid the psychic a total of $51,348 between December 2014 and January 2016, prosecutors said in a court filing this week.

Prosecutors are trying to sustain their felony case against Dukes, one week after 13 felony charges against Dukes were placed on hold.

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Dukes will not face charges for the incidents described in the filing at the Oct. 16 trial, but will face a misdemeanor charge that she gave an inappropriate raise to a legislative aide.

Authorities cited a March 29 House Appropriations Committee hearing in which Dukes was visibly impaired and said that she was "full of morphine."

Prosecutors pointed a number of other "extraneous acts" in the filing, including Dukes's spotty attendance record during the 2017 legislative regular session, when she was present 65 percent of the time.