Defense counsel for the third defendant in a child sex ring case in Tyler has filed a motion to transfer venue. The first two defendants had been convicted…
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The “special rule of privilege in criminal cases” found in Tex. R. Evid. 503(b)(2) has a new lease on life. As discussed in a previous post,…
Tom Ramey, who served as Chief Justice of the Twelfth Court of Appeals from 1989 to 2000, and President of the State Bar of Texas…
When I checked my RSS reader this morning, I saw this from Don Cruse’s Supreme Court of Texas Blog: Justice James Baker died in his sleep Sunday…
The Supreme Court of the United States of America ruled today in Rothgery v. Gillespie County (07-440). At issue was whether the right to appointed counsel attaches…
The 2008 Smith County Judicial Poll is out. It was based on anonymous comments submitted by Smith County attorneys. The three Justices of the Tyler court all…
Back in March, the Supreme Court of Texas overturned the Tyler court in a med mal case, In re Jorden. The issue was whether medical malpractice…
While we’re on a kick about rule changes, everyone in the counties of Wood, Upshur, Gregg and Rusk needs to know that there’s a new…
Time for another kudos to Scott Henson at his Grits for Breakfast blog. Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Cathy Cochran sought out Grits to weigh in on the deletion of the…
OK, this is a little outside of the scope of TylerAppeals, but I couldn’t pass it up. Over lunch I came across some rankings of Texas…