The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday rejected death row inmate Rodney Reed's latest innocence claims. The rejection came four years after the state's highest courtissued a stay days before Reed's scheduled executionfor the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Lee Stites. Reed was ...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appealsis the state’s highest court for criminal cases. It reviews appeals from lower courts in serious criminal matters, including death penalty cases. Unlike the Texas Supreme Court, which handles civil cases, this court focuses solely on interpreting criminal ...
publicproceedings of the Supreme Court of Texas will be producedand made available on the Internet at the website ofthe Saint Mary's University School of Law,http://www.stmarytx.edu/law/, linked through the Court'swebsite, http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/, as technicaloperations ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court on Wednesday denied a request to consider whether to reverse Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of a man who was convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter demonstrator. The decision from the the all-Republican Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday at le...
Eliseo Hernandez MORENO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee. No. 69268. Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc. May 28, 1986. *296 Larry P. Urquhart (court appointed on appeal), Brenham, for appellant. James H. Keeshan, Dist. Atty., Peter C. Speers, III, Asst. Di...
The Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision in 2016 was largely a product of a 2013 state law, dubbed the “junk science law,” which allows Texas courts to overturn a conviction when the scientific evidence used to reach a verdict has since changed or been discredited. Lawmakers, in...
the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals earlier Thursday night denied a motion for a stay of execution, reversing a temporary order granted by Travis County Judge Jessica Mangrum. That state appeals court ruling was in response to an appeal from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of Mangrum's rulin...
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It said that its own courts have adequately considered and rejected Roberson's requests to review the evidence, writing: "As noted by the [Criminal Court of Appeal's] opinion on direct review and Judge [Kevin] Yeary's recent concurrence, 'the tiny victim suffered multiple t...
Legal experts suggest the reason for this is the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals misinterpreting the law and assessing applicants based on their innocence rather than the evidence. “In practice, the CCA is applying a much higher standard than what the legislators w...