Shelter-in-place alert in Texas City due to a fire at the Marathon Refinery. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has repeatedly ruled in favor of Robert Roberson's execution, but Election Day could ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. The ...

Chattanooga attorney Logan Davis appeared before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday to argue on behalf of 87-year-old Earl David Maney, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter ...

A path to dismissing President Trump’s hush money criminal conviction was reopened Thursday after an appeals panel revived his bid to move the case to federal court. Trump wants to move the case out ...

Former President Donald Trump and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are aiming to unseat three incumbent judges on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest criminal court in the state. Texas ...

Before this year, even reasonably well-informed Texans didn’t know much about the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals. Then Attorney General Ken Paxton took a keen interest in ousting several of the ...

Texas has executed one person this year. Eight people were put to death in 2023 more than any other state. (Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune, Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune) Sign up for The Brief, The ...

NEW YORK -- Just over a year after Donald Trump became the first former president to be found guilty of a felony, an appeals court is set to hear the president's bid to move his case to federal court.

Republican David J. Schenck, an attorney and former Court of Appeals justice, will face off against Democrat Holly Taylor, an assistant district attorney, in November. Getty Images Voters will choose ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to rehear a Washington County case involving allegations of election wrongdoing. (Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune, Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas ...