Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

The nation’s high court heard arguments Tuesday on whether Reed can seek DNA testing of crucial evidence in the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County.

The Tarrant County District Attorney has accused two former prosecutors of lying and perjury in the death penalty case of Paul David Storey, and she's asking the state’s highest criminal court to grant Storey a new punishment trial.

Mason said she didn’t know she was ineligible to vote when she cast a provisional ballot in 2016, but she was sentenced to five years. Now, the Court of Criminal Appeals says an appellate court that affirmed her conviction must look again at the evidence of Mason’s intent.

Reed has long professed his innocence in the 1996 murder for which he faces execution. Key evidence in the case has not been tested for DNA, including the ligature used to strangle 19-year-old Stacey Stites.

The 8-1 decision came Wednesday from the all-Republican Court of Criminal Appeals.

A Jewish death row inmate who was part of the so-called “Texas 7” gang should get a new capital murder trial because the judge who presided over his case held anti-Semitic views, a state district judge said Monday.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals took the rare step Wednesday in the landmark case of Roy Oliver, who was convicted of murder in the death of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards.

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The state's highest criminal court has struck down a Texas law that bans sexually explicit Internet communications between an adult and minor. The Court…