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The following is a list of recent first and second-degree felony indictments from the Ector County District Clerk's Office. Britaney Aguilar. Manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance. Logan ...
In December 2021, three months after his arrest, 41-year-old Jason Thornburg was formally indicted by a grand jury in Texas for three counts of capital murder. Under Texas state law, the sentence for capital murder was either the death penalty or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. At the time of Thornburg's indictment, the ...
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.
Municipal Courts are the most active courts, with County Courts and District Courts handling most other cases and often sharing the same courthouse. Administration is the responsibility of the Supreme Court of Texas, which is aided by the Texas Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council and the State Bar of Texas, which it oversees.
Aug. 15—The following is a list of felony indictments by an Ector County grand jury. The list does not include those who have yet to be arrested. ASSAULT Abril Marquez, 27, was indicted Aug. 5 ...
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 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.
A Texas grand jury returned a 21-count indictment accusing Mitchell Wasek, 28, on 17 May of invasive visual recording, the Travis County district attorney announced this week. Wasek is the son of ...