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Finley has criticized the CCA’s unwillingness to grant appeals in death penalty cases, saying the court “has denied justice to Texans, while bringing disrepute to the Texas Criminal Justice ...
The American-Statesman found that local prosecutors in other major urban counties do not routinely miss the 90-day deadline ...
Texas can continue its national leadership in holding lawbreakers accountable and offering second chances as big as the state ...
(Evan L'Roy/The Texas Tribune ... instead of a criminal law hearing officer, to set the initial bond. Since 2019, Ogg said, “thousands of cases” have been dismissed by criminal law hearing ...
MIDLAND, Texas — In the past week alone, multiple criminal cases have emerged involving adults abusing their power over children. A fairly new law, aimed at stopping predators before they act ...
Faulty DNA tests being used in criminal cases in Texas could impact about 700 cases. Under some circumstances, these tests were incorrectly coming back as insufficient DNA to test. More than 1,000 ...
E L PASO, Texas – Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas filed 316 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases during the first week of ...
Faulty DNA tests being used in criminal cases in Texas could impact more than 1,000 cases. Under some circumstances, these tests were incorrectly coming back as insufficient DNA to test.
Those are some of the key allegations made in a Galveston, Texas ... similar to the prosecution’s case against James and Jennifer Crumbley in their separate criminal trials.
COOKE COUNTY, Texas — A legal battle between the Cooke County District Attorney and the county’s only elected District Judge escalated Tuesday as he sought her recusal from about 400 criminal ...
It's unclear if the Department of Criminal Justice has broadened or continued the investigation. A spokesperson declined The Texas Newsroom's request for further comment. Texas prison heat case ...
The state’s highest criminal appeals court has vacated the conviction of a Dallas County man accused of injuring a child, arguing scientific advancements undermine the scrutinized “shaken baby ...