Video-Judicial Candidate Forum, Feb 12th, hosted by CCYC
The video of the Feb 11, 2012 Judicial Candidate Forum, hosted by the Collin College Young Conservatives has just been uploaded. These students did an excellent job and I hope that you will watch the video, get to know the judicial candidates on the ballot, and share this information with all your friends and family in North Texas.
All of the candidates that participated in this forum will be on the ballot in Collin County and many of them will appear on the ballot in several counties, and one will be state-wide:
http://vimeo.com/37224316
In Texas, there are over 2700 courts and over 3400 judges.
Here's a brief description of each of the courts for each of the participating candidates that you will hear from on the 2 hour video:
http://vimeo.com/37224316
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Term:6 tear terms.
Ranking:Highest Texas court.
Type of Cases:Deciding criminalappeals from the 14 courts of appeals and death penalty appeals
directly from district courts.
Description: The Court of Criminal Appeals is Texas’ highest court for criminal cases.The court consists of a Presiding Judge and eight Judges.They are elected by the voters of the entire state.The Curt sits in Austin, near the Capitol.From time to time it may sit in other cities to hear cases.
Location:Their jurisdiction extends to the borders of Texas .
Texas 5th District Court of Appeals
Term:6 tear terms.
Ranking:One of 14 Texas intermediate appellate courts.
Type of Cases:Deciding appeals from district and county courts in civil, criminal, family & juvenile cases exceptthat death penalty appeals bypass these courts and go directly to the Court of Criminal Appeals.The Fifth Court of Appeals does not conduct trials. Instead, it reviews decisions of the trial judges for legal error and either affirms the trial court’s results or reverses all or a portion of them. Each party presents its case to a three-judge panel through written legal briefs covering the applicable points of law and the trial court record.
Location:The Fifth Court of Appeals considers appeals from state district and county courts located in Dallas, Collin, Grayson, Hunt, Rockwall and Kaufman counties.
199th District Court
Collin County
Term:4 tear terms.
RankingTexas trial court.
Type of Cases:Deciding civil [$500 to unlimited], felony-criminal, family & juvenile cases.
Location:Collin County.
380th District Court
Collin County
Term:4 tear terms.
RankingTexas trial court.
Type of Cases:Deciding civil [$500 to unlimited], felony-criminal, family & juvenile cases.
Location:Collin County.
County Court at Law #2
Collin County
Term:4 tear terms.
RankingTexas trial court.
Type of Cases:Deciding civil [$500 to $200,000], classes A& B misdemeanor-criminal cases, appeals of criminal and civil cases from the Justices of the Peace.
Location:Collin County.
Thank you to the Collin College Young Conservatives for hosting and providing a great service to the voters in Texas. We look forwrad to seeing more great accomplishments from this generation of Americans!
http://vimeo.com/37224316
...special gratitude to Steve Spence, of Allen, for all his time eidting and producing a quality video to share with us!
(share with all you know in North Texas!)
...Barbara
"It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression...that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary;...working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped." -- --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, 1821
