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2. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Wikipedia

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   However, in 1958, the revision of the code was undertaken by a 23-person committee formed of the Texas State Bar with a tripartite goal to remove technicalities and loopholes by which a party can exploit the law, reform the appeal system, and "strike the delicate balance" of protecting the people of Texas from crime while also preventing others ...

3. Ector County Felony Dispositions & Indictments: August ... - AOL

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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 ...

4. Jason Thornburg - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Judiciary of Texas - Wikipedia

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   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]

6. In first Tarrant County case, suspect charged with murder in ...

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   In the first Tarrant County application of a state law that makes a person who sells fentanyl to someone who dies from exposure to the synthetic opioid eligible for prosecution on murder, Fort ...

7. Two Texas jail guards are indicted by a county grand jury in ...

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   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 ...

8. Texas Penal Code - Wikipedia

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   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.

9. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

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   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 ...