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John W. Vinson, Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.
Ken Oden, Travis County Atty., James W. Collins, Director, Civ. Div., Austin, Tex., for defe...
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Erie County Executive Chris Collins has ignored the Legislature's will at several turns. Is he now ignoring the spirit of a judge's order?
Collins intends to collect about $7.9 million more in property taxes than he would if he fully complied with State Supreme Court Justice Joseph R. Glownia's ruling and accepted the Legislature's cuts to the 2011 budget.
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John W. Vinson, Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.
James M. McCormack, Asst. County Atty., Ken Oden, Travis County Atty., Austin, Tex., for def...
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PORTLAND, Texas - Police launched an investigation Wednesday into a Texas family law judge whose daughter posted a YouTube video of him savagely beating her with a belt during a tirade several years ago when she was a teenager.
The nearly 8-minute video, viewed more than 950,000 times as of late Wednesday, shows Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams lashing his then-16-year-old daughter in the legs more than a dozen times and growing increasingly irate while she screams and refuses to turn over on a bed to be beaten. The video was uploaded last week.
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McALLEN, Texas - As his adult daughter took to national television, the career of the Texas judge now infamous for the violent beating he gave her as a teenager began to look less certain Thursday.
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced that it had opened an investigation into the video, now viewed more than 2.3 million times on YouTube, that shows Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams beating his then 16-year-old daughter with a belt for using an illegal file-sharing program.
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PORTLAND, Texas (AP) -- Hillary Adams says until last week, only a couple of close friends knew about the savage beating she received seven years ago from her father, a Texas judge who handles child abuse cases.
Now the beating is on display to the world on YouTube, thanks to a secret video she made, and her father, Aransas County Court-at- Law Judge William Adams, is the subject of a police investigation.
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ROCKPORT, Texas - Police launched an investigation Wednesday into an online video that shows a Texas family law judge profanely berating and repeatedly lashing his 16-year-old daughter with a belt.
The nearly 8-minute video, which has been viewed more than 950,000 times on YouTube since being uploaded last week, shows Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams violently whipping a girl in the legs more than dozen times and growing irate while she screams and refuses to turn over on a bed to be beaten.
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Distinguishing politics from law
Regarding "Crisis at the court" (Opinion, Page O-1, Dec. 26):
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McALLEN, Texas - A Texas family law judge whose daughter secretly videotaped him savagely beating her seven years ago won't face criminal charges because too much time has elapsed, police said Thursday.
Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams likely would have been charged with causing injury to a child or other assault- related offenses for the 2004 beating of his then-16-year-old daughter, but the five-year statutes of limitations expired, Rockport Police Chief Tim Jayroe said.
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About two years after a 15,000-case backlog jammed a Milwaukee County court that handled nothing but driving-after-revocation cases, the court's pending caseload has fallen below 2,000 - and the court soon will return to handling a normal mix of misdemeanor cases.
The rapid drop in the caseload owes significantly to a little- publicized change to state law in September that, with the click of a button, restored thousands of Wisconsin residents' right to obtain driver's licenses.