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[6] [7] He graduated from the University of Houston and Cooley Law School. [2] Fleischer has been a lawyer in Texas since 2004 and was a criminal defense attorney before running for public office. [7] In 2018, Fleischer ran for Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 5 after incumbent Margaret Harris declined to run for reelection.
Unlike the county judge, judges of the county courts of law are required to be attorneys. The county courts at law may hear both civil and criminal matters, or hear them separately, depending on how the Legislature has structured them (Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Harris, and Tarrant counties have "county criminal courts" or "county criminal courts ...
The various courts of appeals occasionally but rarely hand down conflicting rulings on the same legal issue. In large part, the Texas Supreme Court (in civil cases) or Court of Criminal Appeals (in criminal cases) exist to resolve these rare conflicts and to set forth consistent legal precedent for the state's litigants.
Erin Lunceford, a GOP candidate who lost her bid to become a district court judge in Harris County is suing to throw out the election results and have the court order a As electoral disputes mount ...
Overlooked in the churn of one of the country’s busiest courthouses, the forgotten appeals included two death penalty cases, and one from a man who’s already finished his 20-year sentence.
Harris County regulations from the Harris County Attorney; Dallas County Code from Municode; Local ordinance codes from Public.Resource.Org; Case law: "Texas", Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School, OCLC 1078785565, Court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard ...
Most district courts consider both criminal and civil cases but, in counties with many courts, each may specialize in civil, criminal, juvenile, or family law matters. [ 2 ] The Texas tradition of one judge per district court is descended from what was the dominant form of American state trial court organization for much of the 19th century ...
Gloria K. Bradford: [165] First African American female to try a case in the Harris County District Court; Hannah Chow: [10] [166] First Asian American female (and Asian American in general) to serve as a Judge of the Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 5 (1987)