Criminal Procedure
50 Lawyers Pack Court to Support Solo Whose Office Was Searched
Posted Aug 12, 2008, 06:59 am CDT
By Molly McDonough
Lawyers in Texas upset about a judge-authorized search of a solo practitioner who is representing an alleged contract killer filed into a Collin County court last week in a show of support for lawyer Keith Gore.
In February, with the OK of 401st District Judge Mark Rusch, Texas Rangers and local police searched Gore's McKinney office purportedly to look for evidence in the case against Mark Lyle Bell, Texas Lawyer reports in a detailed story about the controversy.
Now, dueling motions to recuse Judge Rusch because he's seen too much and Gore because he's a fact witness are now muddying the case.
Among those present at the Aug. 5… Continue reading...
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