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A renegade heir to political royalty, a soon-to-be-former state Supreme Court justice and an indicted incumbent could make the race for Texas attorney general the contest to watch in next yearâs Republican primary.
Buzzard No. 1 is Land Commissioner George P. Bush. Heâs the latest to test a family theory that running for office with a famous name means you get half your predecessorsâ friends and all of their enemies. His father, Jeb, was a governor of Florida and a 2020 presidential candidate. His uncle, George W., was the 43rd president, and his grandfather, George H.W., was the 41st. His great-grandfather, Prescott, was a U.S. senator from Connecticut. George P. Bush is bucking the familyâs politics with an appeal to former President Donald Tr
Land Commissioner George P. Bush launched his campaign for Texas attorney general last week with the benefit of a family name pretty much synonymous with.
Texas Supreme Court Berates State Comptroller Who Initially Rejected $2M Compensation for Black Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for Killing Police Officer
The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Dec. 18, that a Black man who spent 12 years in prison for a crime he did not commit should receive compensation for his time spent behind bars, and that a state agency overstepped its legal authority in denying him compensation.
Alfred Dewayne Brown, 38, was sentenced to death for the 2003 murder of a Houston police officer but was released from death row in 2015 when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals tossed out Brown’s conviction.
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Texas Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the state’s comptroller had no authority to deny death-row exoneree
Alfred Dewayne Brown’s application for compensation after a trial court had declared him “actually innocent.”
The court ruled on December 18, 2020 that Texas law entitled Brown to compensation for the twelve years he was imprisoned after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of a store clerk and a Houston police officer. Brown spent nine years on Texas death row after Harris County Assistant District Attorney Dan Rizzo suppressed phone records that demonstrated Brown could not have committed the murders and jailed Brown’s girlfriend until she agreed to falsely testify against him. The decision paves the way for Brown to finally receive about $2 million from the state.
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Alfred Dewayne Brown will finally be compensated up to nearly $2 million for his wrongful imprisonment, after spending 12 years behind bars and nearly a decade on Texas death row for a crime the courts have since determined he didn t commit. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the state was wrong to deny him payment.
The ruling follows a lengthy fight over Brown’s innocence, a determination made by prosecutors and the trial court that Houston police and top state officials have rejected.
The top Texas court did not wade into the argument over Brown s innocence, but instead rejected the premise that the state s top accountant can make final decisions over who does and doesn t deserve wrongful imprisonment payment.