Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Quintana
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided March 24, 2010No. 08-08-00227-CRPublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Chief Justice.
“On the sea there is a tradition older even than the traditions of the country itself.... It is the tradition that with responsibility goes authority and with them both goes accountability.” 1
This is an appeal of a denial of a pretrial writ of habeas corpus. Veronica Rachel Quintana is an elected city representative of El Paso, Texas. In November 2007, she was arrested and charged with Class A misdemeanor forgery. The El Paso District Attorney assigned a supervisory prosecutor to handle the prosecution with public instructions that no offer of…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Johnson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
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3Cited by43 opinions
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