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Category: Capital Crimes | Murder
Kent Whitaker—an extraordinary man and an exceptional father. A person could travel this wretched globe ten times over and could count the number of Kent Whitakers he would find on one hand.
On December 10, 2003, Kent Whitaker’s eldest…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Murder
Texas has more than its share of bad drivers. One of its cities, San Antonio, ranks in the top ten among the nation’s most dangerous drivers.
In 2016, there were 3,773 traffic fatalities in Texas, according to the Texas…
Category: Appeals | Cyber Crimes | Drug Trafficking | Murder
On April 12, 2017, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that Article I, Section 9 of the Texas Constitution does not provide broader privacy rights than the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The case involves G. Jerard…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Murder
Let us start by stating that most police officers are decent, hardworking people who make good faith efforts to fulfill their sworn duty to protect and serve. On a daily basis, they face dangerous, and often fatal, risks as they…
Category: Appeals | Capital Crimes | Murder
U.S. Supreme Court decisions are often perplexing; sometimes impossible to understand, much less rationalize.
That was the case when the Court on April 12, 2016 refused to block the execution of Kenneth Fults by the State of Georgia.
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Category: Federal Criminal Law | Murder
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is the federal appellate court with jurisdiction over U.S. District Courts in Tennessee, Michigan, Kentucky, and Ohio.
In 2015, a total of 52,698 federal appeals were filed in the 12 regional Courts of…
Category: Murder | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 1994, former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta prosecuted former prison guard Robert Carter and Anthony Graves for the murder of a Somerville family of six who were killed in April 1992. The murder victims included a well-liked woman…
Category: Murder | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Corpus Christi, Nueces County has a problem with their District Attorney’s Office.
Over the last couple years the Texas State Bar has sent an unmistakable message to state prosecutors that the days of getting a free ethical pass on…
Category: Appeals | Capital Crimes | Murder | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The ghost of Glenn Ford will forever haunt former Louisiana prosecutor Marty Stroud. Failing to learn from Stroud’s sad example, prosecutors in Bowie County, Texas, relentlessly press to execute a potentially innocent man, despite evidence that his conviction is tainted…
The State of Texas recognizes four classes of homicide: capital murder, murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Texas does not recognize degrees of murder, such as first and second degree murder as most people are familiar with from television…
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