Christopher Sherman

July 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

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December 02, 2008 | Daily Report Online

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas AP _ A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday and told the southern Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends.Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accused Cheney and the other defendants of responsibility for prisoner abuse.

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

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January 17, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A former South Texas lawmaker says he helped steer cases for an Austin personal injury attorney into the courtroom of a Brownsville judge who would ensure favorable outcomes.

By Christopher Sherman

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October 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

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September 22, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

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May 13, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Prosecutors say a former South Texas district attorney and one-time candidate for Congress used the power of his position to profit.

By Christopher Sherman

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March 17, 2008 | Daily Report Online

McALLEN, Texas AP Some resistant South Texas landowners and a deliberate federal judge have come between the government and its goal of nearly 700 miles of Mexican-border fencing by the end of the year.U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen has ordered the government to negotiate with owners over the price of access to the land, an extra step that has slowed the project.

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

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February 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WESLACO, Texas AP - More than 40 Texas farmers, ranchers and irrigation districts are gearing up to take their long-standing water war with Mexico to the next level, which in this case is a Canadian judge.Texas Comptroller Susan Combs came to the Rio Grande Valley for a pep talk Tuesday, to reinvigorate farmers who have been fighting for three years and running up legal bills of almost $500,000.

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

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November 21, 2008 | Daily Report Online

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas AP - A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing.Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra asked Presiding Judge Manuel Banales to recuse himself from the case, which alleges abuse at federally run prisons.

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

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August 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

McALLEN, Texas AP - A federal judge dismissed a conservation group's lawsuit challenging two wind farm projects under construction in a southern coastal Texas county, clearing the way for their completion by year's end.The Coastal Habitat Alliance had sought to stop PPM Energy, now Iberdrola Renewables, and Texas Gulf Wind, a subsidiary of Babcock Brown Renewable Holdings, from building wind turbines in Kenedy County.

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

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