Like many people who are acquitted of a felony, Joshua Bledsoe used Chapter 55 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure to have a robbery charge expunged from his record. He did so after a trial judge dismissed the case against him based on an allegation that a prosecutor didn’t disclose exculpatory evidence.
But Jon Hall, the former Galveston County assistant district attorney who Bledsoe alleges hid the evidence in Bledsoe’s criminal trial, is using the same expunction statute to defend himself in a State Bar of Texas disciplinary proceeding.
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