Texas Code of Criminal Procedure

You know, there's a whole bunch of factors.

Like in Texas, there's a bunch of factors that we have to take into consideration under 17.15 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

Sorry, I just wanted to be a nerd for a minute.

But the question you're asking has been addressed by the Fifth Circuit, right? Ability to pay by itself.

If the consent decree is vacated, then it will cost the county $32 million to do what the law requires them to do, which they have not been doing because they've been hiding behind the consent decree.

I don't think Harris County is going to get a lot of sympathy from the legislature because the legislature has now enacted a new provision that says that if you're persistently and willfully not following 17.15 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, that that can be one of the grounds for possible removal of a judge.

And so I think the legislature is resolving this issue of who sets bail policy in Texas.

Is it the Harris County Commissioner's Court by inviting plaintiff's attorneys into their county to do brother-in-law consent decree settlements? that changed Texas law? Or is it the Texas legislature? And I think the Fifth Circuit may step in to tell Judge Rosenthal that they set the law in the Fifth Circuit and not Judge Rosenthal.

Because grand jury proceedings are secret, there have been no reports of what evidence those jurors saw.

So grand jury proceedings are very important because under the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, I believe, you can't be charged with a felony in theory without being indicted by a grand jury.

They can still bring charges.

The prosecutor can still choose to bring charges, but the grand jury proceeding is, uh, pretty useful as kind of a dress rehearsal for trial.

And predominantly, we're going to focus on SB 9.

This week, we're going to talk about Article 17.03 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure dealing with personal bonds.

Texas recognizes three types of bonds.

The first is a surety bond.

The result was the executive order was upheld in both federal court and state court.

And so when we come around to SB 6, since that issue had been litigated and upheld, one of the key components in SB 6 was the limitation of the use of personal bonds for violent offenses.

And so the legislature enacted major changes to 17.03 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

And so instead of having just one section that says only the court with jurisdiction can issue personal bonds for these offenses, we now have three different sections that guide the use of personal bonds.

And then are you do you guys get to play a little bit more loose with things or is it tighter being a bounty hunter than a cop?

I mean, we had to follow the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

So we had to, you know, we had to get permission to enter a house.

We had to do things by the book, and we did.