Usually, grand jury investigations are conducted out of the public eye for privacy reasons. But in Collin County, an investigation of Judge Suzanne Wooten became public after Wooten filed and won a “Motion to Quash Illegally Re-Assembled Grand Jury.”
Wooten, judge of the 380th District Court, wrote in her motion to quash that she has been under investigation by a Collin County grand jury since at least 2009. She alleged that 366th District Judge Ray Wheless of McKinney had discharged the grand jury on June 24, immediately after a prosecutor had asked the judge to extend its term, but the state attempted to re-assemble the grand jury without the judge’s approval.
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