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David Marcel Fleischer is an American judge currently serving on the Harris County Criminal Court in Texas. [1] He was first elected to the position in 2018, running as a Democrat, and won reelection in 2022. [1] [2] [3] Fleischer is popular online for his unique style of holding defendants accountable while offering guidance. [4] [5]
Unlike the county judge, judges of the county courts of law are required to be attorneys. The county courts at law may hear both civil and criminal matters, or hear them separately, depending on how the Legislature has structured them (Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Harris, and Tarrant counties have "county criminal courts" or "county criminal courts ...
Elsa R. Alcala, also known as Elsa Spjut (born 1964), is a former Republican official who most recently served (2011–2018) as one of the nine judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She was appointed to the Place 8 on the bench by then Governor Rick Perry , when Charles Holcomb stepped down to run in 2012 for the United States Senate .
Overlooked in the churn of one of the country’s busiest courthouses, the forgotten appeals included two death penalty cases, and one from a man who’s already finished his 20-year sentence.
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Hannah Chow: [10] [167] First Asian American female (and Asian American in general) to serve as a Judge of the Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 5 (1987) Phyllis Frye (1981): [ 23 ] [ 24 ] First openly LGBT individual to serve as a Judge of the Houston Municipal Court in Texas (2010)
In 2019, Governor Greg Abbott appointed McClure to the trial court bench in Harris County. [1] He was elevated to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in December 2020. [2] He is the first African American judge on the court since 1998, and the third African American judge on the court in Texas history. [3]
The 27-year-old suspect was charged with assault on a family member, a misdemeanor, according to a complaint filed in Harris County Criminal Court. A protection order banning the suspect from ...