Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won arguments that his criminal trial for felony securities fraud charges should happen in his hometown of McKinney instead of Houston.

In a divided ruling, Houston’s First Court of Appeals has rejected arguments by special appointed prosecutors, who wanted a Houston district court to handle the jury trial in Paxton’s case for two securities fraud charges and one charge of failure to register as an investment adviser.

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