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Certain pretrial delays are automatically excluded from the Act's time limits, such as delays caused by pretrial motions. [9] In Henderson v.United States, 476 U.S. 321, 330 (1986), the Supreme Court held that § 3161 excludes "all time between the filing of a motion and the conclusion of the hearing on that motion, whether or not a delay in holding that hearing is 'reasonably necessary.'"
Odessa American, Texas. August 2, 2024 at 8:01 PM. Aug. 2—The following is a list of recent first and second-degree felony dispositions from the Ector County District Clerk's Office.
For the purpose of citation, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure or Texas Criminal Procedure Code may be abbreviated to Tex Crim Proc [5] or Tex Crim Pro [6] or Tx Crim Proc [7] or Tx Crim Pro [8] or Tx Code Crim Proc [9] or Tx Code Crim Pro [10] or Tex Code Crim Proc [11] or Tex Code Crim Pro [12] or Code Crim Proc Tex [13] or Code Crim Pro Tex.
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 Dallas pastor has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after he was convicted of stealing property from three churches by filing fraudulent deeds.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will stand trial on securities fraud charges in April, a judge ruled Monday, more than eight years after the Republican was indicted and a month after his ...
Search incident to a lawful arrest, commonly known as search incident to arrest (SITA) or the Chimel rule (from Chimel v.California), is a U.S. legal principle that allows police to perform a warrantless search of an arrested person, and the area within the arrestee’s immediate control, in the interest of officer safety, the prevention of escape, and the preservation of evidence.
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