6 days ago
Ed Graf's 1988 conviction for setting a fire that killed his two young stepsons was set aside in March by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
11 days ago
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals eventually ordered the changes.
14 days ago
Stephen Barbee, the Fort Worth man on Death Row for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son in 2005, has lost an appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
14 days ago
He is also expected to call lawmakers back next year if the Texas Supreme Court rules the school finance system unconstitutional.
15 days ago
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday agreed with the Lubbock trial court which rejected an appeal from 33-year-old Rosendo Rodriguez.
15 days ago
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday denied an appeal from 46-year-old Stephen Barbee.
20 days ago
Sturns has served on four different courts, including the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
21 days ago
The 4th Texas Court of Appeals issued a brief order Wednesday.
77 days ago
"Though the Texas Court of Appeals is the highest criminal court, Jefferson was speaking for the entire judiciary in his speech.
78 days ago
Phillips had one opponent who called the Supreme Court soft on crime -- a difficult charge to deny in a civil court that never hears criminal cases.
97 days ago
That's because the suit brought by more than 600 of the state's 1,000-plus school districts must still be argued before the Texas Supreme Court.
99 days ago
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals must accept Lagomarsino's recommendation for the conviction to be formally overturned, a process that is considered a formality.
100 days ago
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals must accept Lagomarsino's recommendation for the conviction to be formally overturned, a process that is considered a formality.
100 days ago
Judge James Lagomarsino agreed with the attorneys' recommendations, which must be approved by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
103 days ago
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had ordered a new punishment trial for the 43-year-old Hood on a legal point unrelated to the once-secret romantic relationship between the trial judge, Verla...
107 days ago
""All sides have known that, regardless of the outcome at the district level, final resolution will not come until this case reaches the Texas Supreme Court," he said.
107 days ago
Nearly 300 other districts eventually join the case and expand its claims against the state to include that the funding system is inequitable and fails to provide sufficient resources.- 2004:...
111 days ago
The Texas Supreme Court once observed that the "story of water law in Texas is also the story of its droughts."
127 days ago
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday ruled there was sufficient evidence to support David Temple's conviction.
133 days ago
That's the question the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday will tackle in a case being closely watched by animal-rights advocates.
140 days ago
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Hartfield's murder conviction in 1980 because it found a potential juror improperly was dismissed for expressing reservations about the death penalty.
140 days ago
Adelstein said she is interested in seeing how the new electronic filing system will work since the Supreme Court doesn't get as much paperwork as the lower courts.
155 days ago
A group of Southeast Texas property owners are appealing a ruling to the Texas Supreme Court a ruling allowing condemnation of private land for a planned Canada-to-Gulf Coast oil pipeline.
156 days ago
The Texas Supreme Court acknowledges the forms are not perfect and will not work in every circumstance, but the justices believe they are necessary to help indigent litigants.
157 days ago
Prosecutors seeking the death penalty lost their appeal last Wednesday before the 10th Court of Appeals, then Friday appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
