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Ex-inmate struggles to cash in on compensation law
Austin :: TX :: USA | 1 year ago
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Texas A Texas inmate who spent more than 25 years in prison before an appeals court overturned his convictions on two murders is now fighting the state for compensation given to wrongfully imprisoned ex-inmates. Billy Frederick Allen isn't considered
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Texas Redistricting: A Timeline
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 1 year ago
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Arguably during the 2011 legislative session, when Republicans rammed through House, Senate, and Congressional maps that were bound to fail legal tests under the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment. Or it could have been last November, when a
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Supreme Court: Landowners also own groundwater
Austin :: TX :: USA | 1 year ago
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Texas The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that landowners have an ownership interest in the water underneath their land, a decision that will have wide implications on state water management efforts. In a landmark ruling, the Court said that the
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AP Interview: Texas DA seeks death penalty review
Dallas :: TX :: USA | 1 year ago
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The Texas prosecutor leading an aggressive push to free wrongly imprisoned inmates, in a county where more than two dozen wrongful convictions have been overturned, is calling for a review of the capital punishment system in the nation's busiest
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Leach loses appeal in lawsuit against Texas Tech
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Tell us The fight between Mike Leach and Texas Tech isn't over. Leach's attorney, Ted Liggett, vowed to keep fighting after the Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected the former coach's appeal in his wrongful termination lawsuit against Texas Tech.
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APNewsBreak: Texas Supreme Court denies Leach
Lubbock :: TX :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has denied Mike Leach's appeal in his wrongful termination lawsuit against Texas Tech. The ruling from the state's highest civil court in Austin came Friday, more than two years after the
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Texas judge faces inquiry on wrongful conviction
Austin :: TX :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Texas (AP) — A special investigation will be launched to determine if a former prosecutor who is now a judge hid evidence in a trial that sent a man wrongly convicted of his wife's murder to prison for nearly 25 years, Texas' chief justice ordered
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Morton Case Court of Inquiry One Step Closer
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Morton was convicted and sentenced to life for the bludgeoning death of his wife, Christine, inside the couple's home. He spent nearly a quarter-century behind bars for the crime before DNA evidence tested last year pointed to another man, Mark Alan
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Supremes Wink at Titty Tax
Austin :: TX :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Illustration by Jason Stout There will be no Lone Star strippers in D.C. after the U.S Supreme Court decided it will not review Texas' "pole tax." On Jan. 23 the court announced that it would not consider the latest challenge by the Texas
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The Biggest Little GOP Donors in Texas
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Everything's Bigger in the Lone Star statecampaign contributions included...In the 2004 cycle, he gave $4.45 million to Swift Boat Vets for Truth and $3 million to the Bush-aligned Progress for America Voter Fund. In 2006, he spent $5 million
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