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22 Cards in this Set
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the Death penalty use
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texas's willingness to implement the death penalty is more than any other state.
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General and special laws of the State of Texas
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is a book of newly enacted laws passed in each legislative session are compiled by the officer of the Secretary of State and published under this title
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Vernon's annotated revised civil statutes of the state of Texas
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this is a book of laws that are arranged by tyhe subject matter this book is available from the west group on the internet.
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Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated
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in 1963, the leg. charged the Tx Legislative Councile with the responsible of reorganizing tx laws related to specific topics into a systematic and comprehensive arrangment of legal codes more than 40 years later the council comtinues to work on this project.
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Bifurcated court system
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Texas and Oklahome are the only states that dividing court systems for dealing with criminal and civil appeals
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Harriet O'Neill
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as of 2006 she was the only female member justice member of the court was
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state of the judicary message
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this is a speech given to the state legislature by the chif justice this speech similar to the state of the state address given by the governor and the state of the union address by the president, the
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Legal services corportation
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this is legal help that is provieded to people who fall under the federal poverity guidlines, they are assigned an attorney
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Texas access to justice commission
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created by the Texas supreme court , works to coordinate and increase delivery of legal serives to the states poor. its a 15 member commision that includes lawyers judges and privite citizens
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Tom DeLay
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]- was a us representative and was investigated by 3 grand juries on 2 charges 1)donated money contributed by corportations to several republican candidates 2) money launder
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Compensation of jurors
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daily pay for jurors is a minimum of 6$ for all or part of the first day of jury duty and 40$ for each subsequent day of service with out a maxium amount
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Texas Penal Code
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a person commits murder if there is evidence of intent to kill or cause serious bodily harm to the victim. The presence of additional circumstances makes the crime a capital felony. Murder becomes a capital felony if the victim was under the age of 6.
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Hill v. McDonald
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that inmates may raise the a claim that ,lethal injection, this method represents cruel and unusual punishment
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Roper v. Simmons
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the death penality can’t be used as a punishment for anyone who was under the age of 18 when committing a capital crime
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Atkins v. Virginia
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you can’t kill a person who is mentally retarted
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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure
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is written to comply with U.S. Supreme Court rulings regarding confessions, arrest, searches, and seizures. Additional rules of procedure have been adopted to promote fairness and efficiency in handling criminal cases
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Community supervision
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is the same as probation
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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is headed by nonsalaried Texas board of criminal Justice, composed of 9 members appointed by the Governor with advice and consent of the TX senate for overlapping 6 year terms including one member selected as chair by the governor
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Windham Independent School Dist
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is headed by nonsalaried Texas board of criminal Justice, composed of 9 members appointed by the Governor with advice and consent of the TX senate for overlapping 6 year terms including one member selected as chair by the governor
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Private prisons
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used to help with the over crouding in federally funded prisons more than 20% of all U.S. prisoners housed in private prisons are in Texas
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Texas Youth Commission
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] is responsible for the supervision of rehabilitation and training of delinquent youths
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DNA testing
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invented by Alec Jefferys in the early 1980’s
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