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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
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 ...