WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed should have a chance to argue for testing of crime-scene evidence that he says will help clear him. The justices, in a 6-3 decision, sent Reed's case back to a lower ...
Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller, who will defend the law at the Supreme Court, said Texas acted in response to the high-profile case of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. He is serving a life sentence after his conviction for killing three babies born alive and for the overdose ...
The U.S. Supreme Court will not decide a dispute over emergency abortions in Texas. The justices declined to take up the case challenging a lower court order that says hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations.Oct 8, 2024 ...
The Texas Supreme Court then weighed in with its order, ending a night of uncertainty. Roberson is scheduled to testify before the committee Monday. “This is an innocent man. And there’s too much shadow of a doubt in this case,” said Democratic state Rep. John Bucy. “I agree this ...
In asking the Supreme Court to toss out the lower court decision, the administration pointed to a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues. At the time the Idaho case began, t...
Supreme Court ruled that death row inmate Thomas Miller-El, 51, deserves a new chance to press his claim that prosecutors stacked his jury with Whites and death penalty supporters.In the high court's 8 to...
provide or support out-of-state abortion care. Monday’s Texas Supreme Court opinion was limited only to Cox’s case, and the court declined to elaborate on the details of the medical exception. The narrow ruling will surely only fan Paxton’s prosecutorial flames, as it dovetails perfectly...
Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the case in light of their ruling last November in another case also involving a claim arising from the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment bar on cruel and unusual punishment. In that ruling, the justices let another Texas inmate p...
"An appeal may be taken by any party aggrieved to the Court of Civil Appeals, and the case may be carried to the Supreme Court by writ of error or upon certificate, as in other civil cases. * * *" As said in Santillian v. State, 147 Tex.Cr.R. 554, 182 S.W.2d 812, 159 A...
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