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Interesting Mandamus Case

| August 2, 2012

Via Lib­erty and Jus­tice for Y’all, In Re Escamilla (PDF), in which the Travis County Attor­ney (Escamilla, who is the elected offi­cial respon­si­ble for pros­e­cut­ing mis­de­meanor cases in that county) filed a man­damus against a judge for allow­ing a defen­dant to plead open (that is, with­out an agreed rec­om­men­da­tion) to the judge with­out the state’s […]

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