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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 ]
She was the First Assistant District Attorney from 1997 to 2009, and became the first female District Attorney in Travis County in 2009. [ 2 ] In 2010, Lehmberg stated that the Hate Crimes Task Force she had started would be expanded due to the beating of two gay men in Austin, a case which remained unsolved. [ 7 ]
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 Center Square) – Multiple state attorneys general have requested the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a federal court dismissal of an indictment brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith ...
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.
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.
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 ...
The information or indictment must be filed within 30 days from the date of arrest or service of the summons. [2] Trial must commence within 70 days from the date the information or indictment was filed, or from the date the defendant appears before an officer of the court in which the charge is pending, whichever is later. [3]