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Michael Eugene Sharp (April 24, 1954 – November 19, 1997) was an American serial killer who abducted and killed two women and one girl in West Texas in 1982, but is thought to be responsible for at least two further murders.
Gonzales appealed, and in June 2015, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stated that Gonzales' appeal was improperly filed and rejected it without considering its merits. [4] On September 1, 2021, the court set Gonzales' execution date for March 8, 2022. [3] The Aguirre family planned to attend the execution. [6]
The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (in case citations, W.D. Tex.) is a federal district court. The court convenes in San Antonio with divisions in Austin, Del Rio, El Paso, Midland, Pecos, and Waco. It has jurisdiction in over 50 Trans-Pecos, Permian Basin, and Hill Country counties of the U.S. state of Texas.
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.
"Kiss and Kill" refers to the March 20, 1961 homicide of Betty Williams, a teenager from Odessa, Texas, United States.She was killed by her ex-boyfriend John Mack Herring (September 23, 1943 [1] – January 5, 2019) at her own request in Winkler County, Texas.
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The district court has exclusive jurisdiction over felony cases, cases involving title to land, and election contest cases. It shares jurisdiction with the county courts, and in some case justice of the peace courts, for civil cases (its lowest limit for hearing a case is a mere $200 in controversy, while JP courts can hear cases up to $10,000).
Donald Trump's lawyers are urging the New York judge in his criminal hush money case to throw out his conviction based on unsworn allegations of "grave juror misconduct" that prosecutors have ...