Still fighting what some observers considered a too-lenient “public warning” over her 2007 refusal to authorize a court clerk to accept a late execution-eve appeal, the top criminal court judge…
A Houston lawyer who tapped a deponent’s foot under the table thought he was in contact with a pillar, not a person, according to an insurance company fighting a disqualification…
Moments after being sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated assault for cutting his niece with a butcher knife, a Texas man slit his own throat this morning in…
Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford and three of his company’s former executives have racked up millions in legal bills as they defend themselves against accusations that they participated in…
A paralegal and her husband have been indicted on charges of embezzling more than $1 million from the Texas law firm where she also served as office manager.
What one defense lawyer described as a “massive amorphous blob” of evidence seized from Bernard Madoff is slowing down a criminal prosecution of three of the convicted Ponzi schemer’s alleged…
The Texas Supreme Court today refused to intervene and overturn a reprimand issued against Judge Sharon Keller for refusing to accept a late-hours appeal before an inmate’s execution.
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