Women got more votes than men in all of the roughly 30 gender-split primary contests for high court, court of appeals and district court. Rarely was it even close.
Texas Court Of Criminal Appeals
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Texas 2020 Elections
This judge refused to toss Rick Perry’s indictment. Now Perry is backing his opponent in Court of Criminal Appeals race.
A PAC with close ties to Perry is backing Gina Parker’s campaign to oust incumbent Judge Bert Richardson in the GOP primary.
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Politics
In Democrats’ low-information judicial primaries, gender and ballot names may drive voters’ decisions
Fourteen Democrats are competing for seven seats on the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals. How do you win when no one knows your name?
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Criminal Justice
Cesar Fierro spent 40 years on Texas death row. A court tossed his sentence Wednesday for faulty jury instructions.
Fierro was sentenced to death in El Paso in 1980 for the murder of a taxi driver.
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Criminal Justice
Pressure is mounting to stop Rodney Reed’s execution. Where does his case stand?
Dozens of lawmakers — both Republicans and Democrats — have asked Gov. Greg Abbott and the parole board to stop Reed’s execution. There are also multiple appeals in the courts.
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Politics
Optimistic Democrats are lining up to run for Texas’ high courts in 2020
The depth of the bench for non-marquee statewide races, like the state’s two high courts and the Railroad Commission, is a measure of how high Democratic hopes have soared ahead of the 2020 election.
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Criminal Justice
Texas executes Justen Hall for murder of woman in El Paso
Hall told a trial judge he needed “to be put down” in 2016. Lawyers questioned his mental health and asked an El Paso court to delay the execution until Hall’s competency can be evaluated.
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Bobby Moore’s death sentence is changed to life in prison after lengthy court fights over intellectual disability
Moore was sentenced to death in 1980 in the fatal shooting of an elderly store clerk during a Houston robbery.
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Clerical concern prompts the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to halt Ruben Gutierrez’s execution
Gutierrez was sentenced to death in the 1998 Brownsville killing of an elderly woman.
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Criminal Justice
A trial judge recommended taking Paul Storey off death row. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said no.
The state’s highest criminal court rejected the judge’s finding that Storey should be resentenced to life in prison after prosecutors falsely said at trial that the murder victim’s family wanted the death penalty.
