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Postcard of the Tarrant County Courthouse, undated. The Tarrant County Courthouse was designed by the architecture firm of Frederick C. Gunn and Louis Curtiss and built by the Probst Construction Company of Chicago, 1893–1895. It is a pink Texas granite building in Renaissance Revival style, closely resembling the Texas State Capitol with the ...
Tarrant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas with a 2020 U.S. census population of 2,110,640, making it the third-most populous county in Texas and the 15th-most populous in the United States.
Most district courts consider both criminal and civil cases but, in counties with many courts, each may specialize in civil, criminal, juvenile, or family law matters. [ 2 ] The Texas tradition of one judge per district court is descended from what was the dominant form of American state trial court organization for much of the 19th century ...
The county recently pulled out of a contract with a West Texas jail to house Tarrant’s overflow inmates because the facility didn’t meet state standards. The county could build more jail space ...
Merritt also said the county secured a $400,000 grant from the State of Texas to create a “temporary felony court to assist in the backlog of in-custody cases with greater expediency.”
Davis celebrated his 100th birthday on Oct. 12, and Miller on Aug. 11. Both men spent over 70 years in the legal profession. Fort Worth criminal defense attorney MarQuetta Clayton called Davis a ...
The Texas Supreme Court Building. Texas is the only state besides Oklahoma to have a bifurcated appellate system at the highest level. [4] The Texas Supreme Court hears appeals involving civil matters (which include juvenile cases), and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears appeals involving criminal matters. [4]
But soon after the Texas 2nd Court of Appeals in Fort Worth overturned the conviction, the decision was appealed by the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, led by District Attorney Phil ...