Legal Opinion
In Re Benton
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided November 16, 2007No. 14-07-00804-CVPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EVA M. GUZMAN, Justice.
In this original proceeding, relator, Ashley Paige Benton, seeks a writ of mandamus ordering respondent, the Honorable Devon Anderson, to vacate the gag order entered against relator, the trial attorneys, and the attorneys’ agents and employees in the underlying criminal case. We conditionally grant the writ.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
On June 6, 2006, members of two gangs known as MS-13 and Crazy Crew clashed in a Houston Park. During the ensuing fight, relator, who was then sixteen, stabbed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Granillo. Granillo died at the scene;…
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