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On August 15, 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury, but has since been cleared on all charges. [1] [2] [3] The first charge of the indictment was abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funding for the Public Integrity Unit, a state public corruption prosecutors department.
The jury's verdict on all counts and settlement amounts must be unanimous. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: What to know as jury deliberates in Texas 'Trump Train' trial
The name refers to a U.S. Supreme Court case in the late 1800s that approved the use of jury instruction by the presiding judge in order to prevent a hung jury. Is an Allen charge an indicator of ...
Jury instructions, also known as charges or directions, are a set of legal guidelines given by a judge to a jury in a court of law. They are an important procedural step in a trial by jury , and as such are a cornerstone of criminal process in many common law countries .
The verdict caps an emotionally charged, two-week trial in Austin federal court that reconstructed the high-speed confrontation on I-35.
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.
Miller-El v. Dretke, 545 U.S. 231 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case that clarified the constitutional limitations on the use by prosecutors of peremptory challenges and of the Texas procedure termed the "jury shuffle." [1]
A Texas jury on Monday found that a San Antonio man violated the Ku Klux Klan Act in a two-week-long civil trial over a “Trump Train” convoy in Central Texas that swarmed a Joe Biden-Kamala ...