Judge Kevin Fine of the 177th District Court in Houston overstepped his authority when holding a pretrial hearing to determine whether a provision of the Texas death penalty statute is unconstitutional.
So said the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which on Jan. 12 granted a mandamus sought by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office and permanently put a stop to a pretrial hearing in defendant John E. Green’s capital murder case.
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