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Joseph R. Burton Senator (R-KS) was convicted of accepting a $2,500 (equivalent to $84,778 in 2023) bribe (1904). [9]John Hipple Mitchell Senator (R-OR) was involved with the Oregon land fraud scandal, for which he was indicted and convicted while a sitting U.S. Senator (1905).
The 78th Texas Legislature failed to gain consensus for HB-384, which would have granted automatic expungement in the cases of acquittal, pardoning, or upon dropping of charges. [5] The 82nd Texas Legislature 's passing of HB-351 and SB-462 reformed the expungement code to include relief for those convicted but later determined to be innocent.
On the morning of July 23, 1999, the Swisher County Sheriff's Department, in cooperation with local authorities, conducted a collective apprehension and arrest of 47 citizens in Tulia, Texas. [10] [11] Thirty-eight of the arrested were African American, [1] which amounted to approximately 10 to 20 percent of Tulia's African American population ...
Ten doctors, two pharmacy execs indicted in North Texas prescription bribery scheme. Nicole Lopez. February 23, 2024 at 3:45 PM ... and 20 years on the money laundering conspiracy charge. ...
The estranged brother of an El Paso mayoral candidate was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme by falsely claiming to be an NBA promoter.
Prosecutors could seek the death penalty against a Mexican national charged with fatally shooting five people in a Texas home, after a grand jury indicted him for capital murder, the district ...
The first federal judge in Texas was John C. Watrous, who was appointed on May 26, 1846, and had previously served as Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. He was assigned to hold court in Galveston, at the time, the largest city in the state. As seat of the Texas Judicial District, the Galveston court had jurisdiction over the whole state ...
The use of the FD-302 has been criticized as a form of institutionalized perjury due to FBI guidelines that prohibit recordings of interviews. Prominent defense lawyers and former FBI agents have stated that they believe that the method of interviewing by the FBI is designed to expose interviewees to potential perjury or false statement criminal charges when the interviewee is deposed in a ...