The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring nude dancing establishments to pay a fee of $5 per customer does not violate the First Amendment.
An Austin attorney has been federally indicted concerning his alleged role in a Texas court corruption scheme in which a former state district judge and two other lawyers have already…
A Texas jury today deliberated only half an hour today before sentencing the leader of a splinter religious group today to a life prison term for the sexual assault of…
Corrected: A former prosecutor in Bexar County, Texas, pleaded no contest to a felony drug charge yesterday as his trial for purchasing crack cocaine was about to begin.
After insisting on the right to defend himself at trial and then presenting only one witness and virtually standing mute at closing, the leader of a fringe fundamentalist religious group…
Unsuccessful in his earlier efforts to persuade the judge in his San Angelo, Texas, child sex-abuse trial to recuse herself, Warren Jeffs tried a new tack.
Corrected: Polygamous leader Warren Jeffs fired his defense lawyers minutes before trial on Thursday and then remained silent as the proceedings got under way.
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