http://thedailyrecord.com Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news Wed, 22 May 2013 18:32:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/01/in-texas-courthouse-workers-on-alert-after-das-killing/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/01/in-texas-courthouse-workers-on-alert-after-das-killing/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:48:50 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=236776 KAUFMAN, Texas — Deputies escorted some Kaufman County employees into the courthouse Monday, two days after the district attorney and his wife were found shot to death in their home in an attack that stirred fears that other public employees could be targeted by assassins. Law enforcement officers were seen patrolling one side of the [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/01/in-texas-courthouse-workers-on-alert-after-das-killing/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/01/31/texas-prosecutor-killed-near-courthouse/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/01/31/texas-prosecutor-killed-near-courthouse/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:56:34 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=232756 KAUFMAN, Texas — An assistant district attorney was shot and killed Thursday morning near the North Texas county courthouse where he worked, and authorities said they were searching for two suspects. Mark Hasse, who was in his 50s, had exited his vehicle in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex and was walking [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/01/31/texas-prosecutor-killed-near-courthouse/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/01/30/fort-hood-suspect-still-faces-possible-execution/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/01/30/fort-hood-suspect-still-faces-possible-execution/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:30:54 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=232602 FORT HOOD, Texas — A judge has decided a Fort Hood shooting suspect still can face the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation. The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, on Wednesday denied Maj. Nidal Hasan’s request to remove the death penalty as a punishment option. Osborn was expected [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/01/30/fort-hood-suspect-still-faces-possible-execution/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/01/29/texas-womans-execution-halted-da-wont-appeal/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/01/29/texas-womans-execution-halted-da-wont-appeal/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:28:06 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=232551 HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The first woman scheduled to be executed in the U.S. since 2010 won a reprieve Tuesday, hours before she was scheduled to be taken to the Texas death chamber. State District Judge Larry Mitchell, in Dallas, rescheduled Kimberly McCarthy’s punishment for April 3 so lawyers for the former nursing home therapist could [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/01/29/texas-womans-execution-halted-da-wont-appeal/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/12/04/judge-in-fort-hood-shooting-trial-removed-for-showing-bias/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/12/04/judge-in-fort-hood-shooting-trial-removed-for-showing-bias/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:08:25 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=229226 FORT WORTH, Texas — A military judge has been thrown off the Fort Hood deadly shooting case after an appeals court found that his treatment of the suspect, including an order to have the man forcibly shaved, indicated a lack of impartiality. It was not immediately clear what impact the U.S. Court of Appeals for [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/12/04/judge-in-fort-hood-shooting-trial-removed-for-showing-bias/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/10/10/justices-question-affirmative-action-plan/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/10/10/justices-question-affirmative-action-plan/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:40:48 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=225343 WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas’ use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action. The court heard arguments in a challenge to the program from a white Texan who contends she was discriminated against when the university did not [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/10/10/justices-question-affirmative-action-plan/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/09/23/texas-inmate-prepares-for-3rd-trip-to-death-house/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/09/23/texas-inmate-prepares-for-3rd-trip-to-death-house/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 03:18:00 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=224109 LIVINGSTON, Texas — What Cleve Foster remembers most about his recent brushes with death is the steel door, the last one condemned Texas inmates typically walk through before their execution. “You can’t take your eyes off that door,” he says. But twice over the past year and a half, Foster has come within moments of [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/09/23/texas-inmate-prepares-for-3rd-trip-to-death-house/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/08/15/fort-hood-shooting-suspects-trial-on-hold-over-beard/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/08/15/fort-hood-shooting-suspects-trial-on-hold-over-beard/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:42:18 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=221590 FORT HOOD, Texas — The trial for an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting was put on hold Wednesday by an appeals court considering his objections to being forcibly shaved. Maj. Nidal Hasan had been scheduled to enter a plea Wednesday to charges in the attack at the Texas Army post, [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/08/15/fort-hood-shooting-suspects-trial-on-hold-over-beard/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/08/14/md-13-other-states-back-affirmative-action-policy/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/08/14/md-13-other-states-back-affirmative-action-policy/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:50:15 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=221458 ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, on behalf of 14 states, is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold racial preferences in college admissions. The court is scheduled to hear arguments Oct. 10 in a lawsuit by Abigail Fisher, a white student who was not admitted to the University of Texas in [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/08/14/md-13-other-states-back-affirmative-action-policy/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/10/holder-addresses-naacp-opposes-voter-id-law/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/10/holder-addresses-naacp-opposes-voter-id-law/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:30:16 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=218940 HOUSTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he opposes a new photo ID requirement in Texas elections because it would be harmful to minority voters. In remarks to the NAACP in Houston, the attorney general said the Justice Department “will not allow political pretexts to disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious right.” Under [...]

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