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Delayed Order Designating Issues in Texas Habeas Action Has No Effect

Loaded on June 15, 2009

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Judiciary, Civil Procedure, Mandamus, Habeas Corpus. Location: Texas.

On June 4, 2008, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) held that an untimely order designating issues entered by a state district court in a state habeas action is of no effect and the district clerk was under a ministerial duty to immediately forward the application and related records ...

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