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20 Nov 2007, 11:18 pm
These are cases in which the State often couldn't secure convictions despite being technically murder; it'll be even less able to secure convictions in the future from juries that know that, if they convict, prison will be the only option.That strikes me as an accurate assessment of the general public's attitude toward intentional killing in Texas, whether by the state or by individuals. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 1:58 pm by Michael Lowe
 Right now, a proposed law is making its way through the Texas Legislature  that will amend the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure to force all law enforcement agencies to get a search warrant signed by a Texas judge before they can grab and use location information on a cellphone. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 1:58 pm by Michael Lowe
 Right now, a proposed law is making its way through the Texas Legislature  that will amend the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure to force all law enforcement agencies to get a search warrant signed by a Texas judge before they can grab and use location information on a cellphone. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm by David S. Kemp
If the Court in Roe had declared the Texas abortion statute unconstitutional, it would have had to state a reason for that ruling, and that reason would have been appropriately generalized to create a rule. [read post]
21 May 2012, 3:38 pm by Ziv Steinberg
Bill Seitz) The panel, from left to right, ACLU’s Vanita Gupta, Texas State Rep. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 6:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
IMO, after such a long time the judge should have flat-out ordered the state hospital to take this fellow, as judges in other jurisdictions have begun to do.The Legislature this year gave with one hand on competency restoration while taking away with the other. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 7:35 pm by Kevin Funnell
Moreover, since Texas is a concealed carry state (in fact, the state legislature is currently moving through a bill to permit university students to carry sidearms on campus), I'm sure that by the time he got very far into his speech, he'd have a number of badges of honor to display proudly to the EMTs on his way out of the venue. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 6:09 am by Jeff Welty
But Texas is the center of the legal battle. [read post]
31 May 2007, 5:32 am
James Tillman was exonerated a few months ago and last week, the CT legislature voted to compensate him $5 million. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 8:02 am by Randy Barnett
And ultimately, any proposed amendment would have to be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures to alter the founding document. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
To preserve the family’s political brand, the elder Ridley-Thomas helped engineer his son’s abrupt resignation from the Legislature, supposedly for medical reasons, and leaned on the University of Southern California for favors to benefit his son. [read post]
17 Apr 2023, 6:10 am by Guest Author
On April 14, 2023, the Supreme Court ordered an administrative stay on the Texas District Court ruling. [read post]
17 Apr 2023, 6:10 am by Guest Author
On April 14, 2023, the Supreme Court ordered an administrative stay on the Texas District Court ruling. [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 3:20 am by Peter Mahler
The Lone Star State takes the prize for the most controversial business divorce decision in 2014, thanks to the Texas Supreme Court’s decision in Ritchie which, as one commentator put it, effectively “gutted the cause of action for shareholder oppression in Texas. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 5:26 am by Ray Mullman
  That’s also how that canceled check ended as a primary exhibit in the case of State of Texas v. [read post]
13 Dec 2020, 12:26 pm by Josh Blackman
I suspect some red states may over-react to 2020 in the exact opposite direction. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 6:32 am by Jeanine Cali
  The presenter, Professor Emily Kadens of the University of Texas School of Law, is a Kluge Scholar with the John W. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 10:42 am by Alicia Maule
Previous exonerees had gone before the state legislature years before and persuaded lawmakers to pass a law. [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 6:26 am by Jim Sedor
That ethics opinion was rescinded in 1999 and now at least six Florida lawmakers, including the House speaker, work for law firms that lobby the Legislature. [read post]