What’s in a name? A lot, according to Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Cheryl Johnson, who wrote one of the two dissenting opinions objecting to the majority ruling this week dismissing the criminal case against former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

“[T]his case has been greatly affected by who it involves,” she wrote. “In no other appeal I have read during the seventeen years that I have served on this court has appellant been called anything other than ‘appellant.’”

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