Texas AG wants inmate on death row despite rare agreement
Source: Associated Press
Updated 1:11 am CST, Saturday, November 10, 2018
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas' attorney general is pushing to keep an inmate on death row despite prosecutors and defense lawyers agreeing that the man is intellectually disabled and shouldn't be executed.
The state attorney general's office asked to take over death row inmate Bobby James Moore's case on Wednesday, the Houston Chronicle reported. The request to replace the district attorney on the case came a day after Harris County prosecutors sided with Moore in a U.S. Supreme Court filing, asking the high court to determine that a Texas appeals court ruling in June was wrong.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has decided twice that Moore is fit to execute, despite his apparent deficiencies.
Moore was convicted of fatally shooting a Houston grocery store clerk in 1980 during a robbery. Moore has fought his appeals for more than three decades and was once within hours of being executed before it was called off.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Texas-AG-wants-inmate-on-death-row-despite-rare-13374786.php
Earlier article about the same Attorney General:
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton booked on fraud charges
By Lauren McGaughy
Updated 1:07 pm, Monday, August 3, 2015
McKINNEY - Ken Paxton was booked Monday at the Collin County jail on three felony charges, confirming weekend reports that a hometown grand jury last week indicted the first-term attorney general for alleged securities fraud.
In keeping with his long-time pattern of avoiding the media, Paxton entered the Collin County jail through an entrance inaccessible to the press and public, and did not make a statement after his booking at the county courthouse.
Dozens of reporters waited for Paxton, who did not appear. A handful of members of the public, mostly representing the Texas Democratic Party, held a small press conference calling for Paxton's resignation.
The scene marked a stark departure from Gov. Rick Perry's post-indictment booking last year, when Perry made a lengthy statement in front of the Travis County courthouse in front of throngs of supporters. Just one pro-Paxton supporter was spotted in McKinney on Monday, a middle aged woman standing on the sidelines and toting a Bible.
More:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Attorney-general-may-surrender-today-on-fraud-6421373.php
Posted at DU at the time:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141165842
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trading places with Moore? 
Maybe he wouldn't be so quick on the trigger to execute Moore.
Nah! He's just another blood thirsty republican who has power.
but the POS Texas AG gets away with criminal activity that he is not penalized for committing. Yeah, that sounds about right. 
