Cooley v. State

OPINION

JANE BLAND, Justice.

Appellant, Christopher Cooley, challenges an aggregate bail of $750,000 for three solicitation of capital murder charges. Specifically, Cooley challenges the trial court’s refusal to lower the $250,000 bail set in Cooley’s original solicitation for capital murder case and the trial court’s setting bail at $250,000 each for two subsequently filed solicitation of capital murder cases. We affirm.

I. Factual Background

On November 23, 2006, the State took Cooley into custody, executing an arrest warrant issued by a magistrate on the strength of an affidavit in which…