Whether or not the father of actress Hilary Duff should pay $25,000 for her 21st birthday party was the subject of a court hearing in Texas yesterday from which her…
A columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram apologized in a column for briefly leaving his 11-year-old son at a McDonald’s after an argument. But the mea culpa…
U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison of Houston is setting a mood not often seen in courtrooms, where formal portraits and framed documents are usually among the only pieces of art.
When the school year started yesterday, a small district in Texas reportedly made history as the first in the country to allow teachers to carry concealed firearms.
Under a new Texas law, state prosecutors can carry handguns anywhere except jails and prisons. That means they are allowed to take them into courthouses and courtrooms.
A lawyer for accused arsonist Wesley Irons says his confession should be thrown out because of psychological coercion by a U.S. Forest Service Agent who talked of sex and marriage…
Authorities in Hidalgo County, in the southern tip of Texas, reportedly have yet to arrest a woman indicted by a grand jury yesterday for first-degree murder in the death of…
A Texas doctor who sought to overturn his indecent exposure conviction, with the help of a well-known attorney and an unusual appellate argument supported by expert testimony, has lost the…
A Texas death-row inmate who was sitting in a truck when his accomplice shot and killed a gas station cashier has failed to persuade a Texas pardons board to commute…
Having escaped the death penalty at almost the last minute in June, Charles Dean Hood has a good chance of actually meeting his maker on his next scheduled execution date…
Defended by a high-profile Houston trial lawyer in the trial of a Continental Airlines flight attendant’s lawsuit claiming that she had been assaulted by the wife of a well-known televangelist,…
There may be a trend nationally to establish more self-help centers in courthouses and public spaces to aid those who are choosing the pro se route in court. But not…
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