Results tagged “texascourt”

It's been a busy weekend for Texas Southern University, where the regents are reportedly meeting this morning to fire interim President James Timothy Boddie, whom they had picked to lead the troubled school last fall. According to KTRK, the new president will be Morris Overstreet, a law professor who earned his law degree from TSU in 1975 and was elected to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 1990. There aren't any more details on... more ›

Something we missed last week that should be of interest to those of us who don't really care for getting traffic tickets: Legislation on its way through the state Legislature would relax a state law that makes it illegal to cover any part of a license plate. The law, which the Legislature passed in 2003, outlawed covering any part of a license plate. It was a response to the problem of people breezing through automated... more ›

Gilbert Amezquita, a man who spent eight years in prison on what might have been a false rape arrest, has begun the process of getting $200,000 in state compensation for his jail time. Amezquita was arrested in connection with the 1998 rape and beating of Kathy Bingham at her father's publishing company, which left Bingham in a coma for 10 days. When she woke up, she told police that "Gilbert" had attacked her; based primarily... more ›

Derrick O'Brien, the former gang member who at the age of 18 killed two young Houston girls, is scheduled to die tonight after his reprieve, issued May 15th by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, was recinded. O Brian and several friends, members of a gang, gang-raped and strangled Jennifer Ertman and her friend Elizabeth Pena in 1993. The girls were killed after they took a shortcut home one night and stumbled upon some... more ›

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Tom DeLay's request to drop charges against him or hold an immediate trial Police are looking for two men they believe shot a local man outside an IHOP in southwest Houston this morning Andrea Yates will go back on trial March 20 after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning deaths of her children Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bob Gammage began a campaign tour in Sugar... more ›