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  • September 29, 2008 | Legal Times

    Conference Call: Do Guilty Verdicts Have to Be Unanimous?

    Conference Call summarizes the roughly 15 percent of all nonpauper petitions that are the most likely candidates for certiorari. It is prepared by the law firms Akin Gump Strau

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  • October 1, 2007 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court heads into new term

    After bulking up the Supreme Court's docket on Sept. 25 with 17 additional cases, the justices head into their new term today facing a full array of hot button issues -- executive power, deat

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  • October 1, 2007 | Legal Times

    Supreme Court Heads Into New Term

    All that's missing now is an abortion case. After bulking up the Supreme Court's docket on Sept.

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  • Iniquez v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-07-09
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    Date Filed: 2012-07-06
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 3
    Judge: Diane M. Henson, Justice
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    Case Number: NO. 03-11-00333-CR

    OPINION A jury convicted appellant Francisco Iniquez of aggravated assault. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 22.02(a)(2) (West 2011). The trial court sentenced Iniquez to fifteen years'

  • July 16, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

    Moore v. Quarterman

    Click here for the full text of this decisionFACTS: In December 1990, Moore and three other men br

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  • Harrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-06-09
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    Date Filed: 2009-06-05
    Court: Tx. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Justice Willett
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    Case Number: 07-0806

    Argued November 13, 2008In this case, we examine whether a court order directing prison officials to withdraw money from an inmate trust account is a civil or criminal matter and, if civil, what pr

  • September 25, 2006 | Legal Times

    A Texas-Sized Standoff Over Sex Toys

    With this issue, Legal Times reintroduces Conference Call, which tracks the petitions for certiorari that have the best chance of being granted by the U.S. Supreme Cou

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  • November 22, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    AUSTIN — The Court of Criminal Appeals on Nov. 18 stayed the execution of James Lee Clark based on a claim that he is mentally retarded. Clark had been scheduled for execution on Nov. 21

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  • Adair v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-09-14
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    Date Filed: 2010-09-10
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 1
    Judge: George C. Hanks, Jr. Justice
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    Case Number: 01-08-00183-CR

    OPINIONA jury found, appellant, James Lance Adair, guilty of the offense of possession of methylenedioxy methamphetamine (commonly known as "ecstasy"), weighing between 4 and 400 grams,a HREF="#D*

  • January 4, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

    Ineffective-Assistance Claims Out in Subsequent Appeals

    A 1995 law that gives death row inmates the right to be represented by "competent counsel" in post-conviction writ proceedings does not give them a right to file subsequent writs claiming that the

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