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Tevin Elliot, a former Baylor linebacker, was sentenced on January 23, 2014, to 20 years in prison and fined US$10,000 for each of his two sexual assaults of a Baylor student in 2012. Sam Ukwuachu, a defensive end, was found guilty by a Texas court on August 21, 2015, of two counts of sexual assault of a Baylor student. That conviction was ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has held that the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act (1970) [3] allows for a trial of any untried indictment, information, or complaint within 180 days. [4] However, the prisoner needs to enter a request for final disposition to begin the clock. [ 5 ]
There followed a long period of further litigation in the form of consent decrees, appeals and other legal actions, until a final judgment was rendered in 1992. [1] But problems in enforcement continued, and in 1996 U.S. Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) to address these issues as well as abuse of the prison litigation process.
Brooks pled guilty to first-degree assault, a felony, for stabbing his longtime girlfriend Diana Rivera on April 18, 2016, and was sentenced to 12 years in state prison in 2017.
Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the asphyxiation death of an inmate in Texas. The indictments, dated Tuesday, charge Joel Garcia, 48, and Rafael Moreno Jr., 37, in ...
A district judge from Denton County has been assigned to preside over a lawsuit to remove 97th District Attorney Casey ... down an indictment July 9 against Hall for a charge of theft of $2,500 or ...
The first codification of Texas criminal law was the Texas Penal Code of 1856. Prior to 1856, criminal law in Texas was governed by the common law, with the exception of a few penal statutes. [3] In 1854, the fifth Legislature passed an act requiring the Governor to appoint a commission to codify the civil and criminal laws of Texas.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent nearly all his nine years as the state's top lawyer under indictment on securities fraud charges filed in 2015.