The attorney general’s office seeks more than $11 million in fines against San Antonio and accuses the city of “thwarting federal immigration enforcement.”
Courts
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Criminal Justice
Dallas grand jury indicts Amber Guyger, fired officer who killed Botham Jean in alleged apartment mixup
The grand jury decided to indict Guyger on a murder charge for the Sept. 6 killing of Jean, an unarmed black man.
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Criminal Justice
Report: Houston-based pharmacy is supplier of state’s execution drugs
Greenpark Compounding Pharmacy has been selling Texas drugs for lethal injections for three and a half years, according to a BuzzFeed News report.
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Criminal Justice
Advocates say the timing is right for independent oversight of Texas prisons
A bill aiming to detach the ombudsman from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice died in 2017. But news from the past year makes advocates hopeful that 2019 will be different.
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Politics
Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at U.S. border
The Trump administration has struck a deal with Mexico’s incoming government to remake border policy.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rules against death row inmate Jeff Wood
The court denied relief on Wednesday to Wood, who never killed anyone, granting the state the opportunity to set another execution date for the 1996 murder of a store clerk in Kerrville.
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Politics
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rules against prosecutors in Ken Paxton payment case
The court agreed in December to weigh in on an obstacle to Paxton’s long-running legal drama, a fight over more than a year’s payment for the prosecutors working on the case.
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State appeals court says Austin’s paid sick leave ordinance is unconstitutional
The case was being challenged in the Austin-based 3rd Court of Appeals.
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Criminal Justice
Texas executes Robert Moreno Ramos, amid pleas for case review
Lawyers for Ramos had argued that he wasn’t aware of his rights under an international treaty, and therefore didn’t receive proper legal counsel during his trial and sentencing.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals grants new trial for death row inmate Albert James Turner
The court threw out Turner’s conviction because his defense attorneys said at trial that he had committed murder, even though Turner wanted to maintain his innocence.
