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Erick Muñoz petitioned for Marlise to be removed from all life-sustaining measures once brain death had been declared. The hospital refused, citing a Texas law which required that lifesaving measures be maintained if a female patient was pregnant—even if there was written documentation that this was against the wishes of the patient or the next of kin.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 2,795 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state. These agencies employed 81,196 sworn peace officers, about 244 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
Brain death is used as an indicator of legal death in many jurisdictions, [7] but it is defined inconsistently and often confused by the public. [8] Various parts of the brain may keep functioning when others do not anymore, and the term "brain death" has been used to refer to various combinations.
The Uniform Determination of Death Act has been enacted in 37 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Jurisdiction with enactment The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) is a model state law that was approved for the United States in 1981 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, in cooperation with the American Medical Association, the ...
Navasota Police Sgt. Mark Butler died while saving others from a wrong-way driver during a pursuit. Hero Texas police officer, an Army veteran, killed in line of duty during car chase: ‘Truly ...
Recommendations were made to accumulate the necessary finances to create a state law enforcement agency. Four bureaus—Administration, State Police, Rangers, and Fire Prevention—were suggested to be created with the implementation of the new force. The findings of Griffenhagen and Associates were ultimately unpopular across the state, and ...
With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as ...
Texas nearly executed Roberson in 2016, but the process was halted days before by the state's highest criminal court, which allowed a lower court to conduct an evidentiary hearing.