The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has asked Texas’ highest criminal court to block a new hearing in the A.J.

The Court of Criminal Appeals isn’t required to review non-death penalty convictions, and it rarely grants requests to do so. Mason turned to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals late last year after a ...

Houston Matters discusses what a recent ruling related to a mistake made by a high-profile attorney says about the expectations of appellate lawyers and judges and what criminal defendants should know ...

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Voters will choose a new presiding judge for Texas’ Court of Criminal Appeals after the current officeholder, Republican Sharon Keller, lost her party’s primary on March 5. The court, which has nine ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted the Wichita County District Attorney’s Office request for a review of another ...

GREENE COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) – The murder convictions of a Greene County woman sentenced to life in prison for killing a pregnant woman in 2016 have been affirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeals at ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Judge Elsa Alcala of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is a zealous ...

In their opening brief, personal lawyers for President Donald Trump are insisting that his appeal of his Manhattan criminal ...

The Fort Worth-based organization that runs Texas’ refugee resettlement operations has sued the federal government demanding it release $36 million in funding that has been held up since January.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. A candidate who ran a low-key campaign and shares a name with the ...