
Former Governor Rick Perry and his legal team were at the state’s highest criminal court on Wednesday morning arguing that the remaining count against him (abuse of official capacity) should be dismissed. A special prosecutor argued that a second count (coercion of a public servant) dismissed by an immediate court of appeals should be reinstated.
by Lana Shadwick18 Nov 2015, 9:37 AM PST0

Video footage and crime scene photos of the Twin Peaks biker shootout in May that killed nine men and injured 20 others was released on Thursday.
by Lana Shadwick29 Oct 2015, 2:14 PM PST0

The highest criminal court in Texas has agreed to hear appeals from both the state and former Governor Rick Perry in the abuse of power indictments brought against him. On Wednesday the Court granted petitions for discretionary review filed in mid-August and early September.
by Lana Shadwick8 Oct 2015, 7:11 AM PST0

An illegal alien from Nicaragua, scheduled for execution in Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday evening, received a stay of execution from the state’s highest criminal court.
by Lana Shadwick26 Aug 2015, 3:37 PM PST0

Lawyers for former Governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry have petitioned the highest criminal court in Texas and are asking the court to dismiss the final charge.
by Lana Shadwick20 Aug 2015, 10:54 AM PST0

The Texas couple who spent more than 20 years in prison for a crime they said they did not commit had their day in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. On May 20, the highest criminal court in the state threw out the 1992 sexual and satanic assault act convictions against former day care operators Dan and Fran Keller.
by Merrill Hope21 May 2015, 6:37 AM PST0

Kent William Sprouse, 42 years-of-age, was put to death at 6:33 CST on April 9, 2015 in Huntsville, Texas, for fatally shooting Ferris Police Officer Harry Marvin “Marty” Steinfeldt III. The murder occurred at a Ferris, Texas, Diamond Shamrock gas station and food mart on October 6, 2002. Sprouse is the fifth Texas death row inmate to be executed this year. There were no late-filed appeals to stop the execution.
by Lana Shadwick9 Apr 2015, 4:52 PM PST0

A District Attorney’s Office in Texas is facing multiple accusations of intentionally withholding favorable evidence from defendants, and the accusations could have major impacts on at least two cases. In the first, a former Nueces County prosecutor filed suit against the Nueces County District Attorney in mid-December claiming he was fired for refusing to withhold favorable evidence from the criminal defense. Then, late last month, defense lawyers for Hannah Overton urged visiting Judge Mario Ramirez Jr., of Edinburg, to drop the murder charge because the prosecutor in the 2007 trial intentionally withheld evidence that would have proved Overton’s innocence.
by Lana Shadwick9 Feb 2015, 9:11 AM PST0