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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Adding Felony Counts by Amending Indictment Constitutes Addition of More Offenses
Loaded on March 15, 2023
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
April, 2023, page 26
Filed under:
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines,
Qualifying Offenses,
Civil Rights Actions or Offenses/Bivens Actions.
Location:
Texas.
by Douglas Ankney
The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas ruled that adding felony counts to an indictment via an amended indictment constitutes the adding of additional offenses to the indictment thereby allowing the State to obtain more convictions than authorized by the original indictment, which is prohibited by Tex. ...
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